Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Gardner Inc - MA

Franklin, MA · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardner Inc - MA runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Gardner Inc - MA: 4.2 TCR = 190% of Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner Inc - MA safety composite

Gardner Inc - MA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Gardner Inc - MA: 2.9 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.56× in 2024

Gardner Inc - MA's TCR rose 3.7 from 2.9 in 2022 to 6.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Franklin, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 190% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK P50
  • PHOTO Glencoe Store
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Glencoe Store (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardner Inc - MA in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Gardner Inc - MA averages 4.2 TCR (190% of the Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Gardner Inc - MA TCR series: 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Gardner Inc - MA falls in its industry

700 Lawn maintenance machinery and establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Gardner Inc - MA (30 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gardner Inc - MA
Gardner Inc - MA (30 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Gardner Inc - MA has fewer employees than the Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2023 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · MA · Franklin

700 Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 85 employers in Franklin, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Glencoe Store 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 04-Batavia 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Implement, Inc. - Colby Dealership 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon Vineyard Supply 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Best Bees Company 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Wareham 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kneeland 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Lagasse Group, LLC 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taunton 1,691 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin 55 675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin 50 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR Horace Mann Educational Associates 633 FTE
NAT-TCR Town of Troutman 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Crest Foods Store 3 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Armin Tool and Manufacturing Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaman Aerospace Group - Kaman Air Vehicles 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Fiber Technology 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Station 61 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillyard Co. - Lancaster 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE SO Goodwill Lars Warehouse/ Outlet 30 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.