Garden power equipment stores · Ohio

Gardner Inc.

Columbus, OH · ~152 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardner Inc. runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Garden power equipment stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Gardner Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 81% of Garden power equipment stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner Inc. safety composite

Gardner Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2016→2021

Gardner Inc. injury rate improved

Gardner Inc.'s TCR fell 3.5 from 5.7 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444210 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 81% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK P72
  • PHOTO Total Equipment and …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Total Equipment and Rental of Salt Lake City, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardner Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardner Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (81% of the Garden power equipment stores BLS benchmark).

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

Gardner Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=2.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Gardner Inc. falls in its industry

136 Garden power equipment stores establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Gardner Inc. (152 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 28 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gardner Inc.
Gardner Inc. (152 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 28 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Gardner Inc. has more employees than the Garden power equipment stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2021 2.2 2.2 4 0 0
2020 1.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.8 1.4 4 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 3 0 0
2016 5.7 5.0 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444210 · OH · Columbus

136 Garden power equipment stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Total Equipment and Rental of Salt Lake City, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TriGreen Equipment Branch Support 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monroe 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WTLYN 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE HGC Construction Co. 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry Gurtzweiler Inc 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Valley Electrical Services 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Brewing Co. - OHC 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR AH4R - Atlanta West 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Paslin 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Administration 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Seaboard Solutions, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE M.J. Dean Construction, Inc. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Control Point Associates, Inc. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE AAI 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dennis Paper & Food Service 152 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.