Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Gardner Inc NC

Browns Summit, NC · ~99 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardner Inc NC runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Gardner Inc NC: 1.3 TCR = 60% of Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner Inc NC safety composite

Gardner Inc NC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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 NC: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.27× in 2024

Gardner Inc NC's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Browns Summit, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 60% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Crosby Hops Farm, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crosby Hops Farm, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardner Inc NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardner Inc NC averages 1.3 TCR (60% 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 NC TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.2

Where Gardner Inc NC falls in its industry

700 Lawn maintenance machinery and establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Lawn maintenance machinery and employers in North Carolina.

Gardner Inc NC (99 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 NC
Gardner Inc NC (99 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Gardner Inc NC has more 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 3.0 3.0 3 0 0
2023 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · NC · Browns Summit

700 Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 21 employers in Browns Summit, NC · 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 Crosby Hops Farm, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KTC - Northern Division 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardner Inc. Salem 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Annex 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE R.D. Graham Electric LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modern Mechanical HVAC LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Elevator Company Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealing Agents Waterproofing Inc 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Browns Summit Procter & Gamble 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shamrock Environmental Corp. 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Banknote Corporation of America 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schenker Inc. (P&G- Browns Summit 169 FTE
NAT-TCR Caraustar Okemah, OK 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR NCH Corporation - HQ 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Massa Products Corporation 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson Middle School 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Gant 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capitol Construction Services, Inc. 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Ridge Senior Housing, LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenson Plastics, Inc. 99 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.