Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Gardner Inc OH

Columbus, OH · ~161 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardner Inc OH runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Gardner Inc OH: 0.7 TCR = 30% of Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner Inc OH safety composite

Gardner Inc OH scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.78 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%).

Gardner Inc OH held a steady TCR band

Gardner Inc OH's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.6 in 2022 to 0.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.6 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #1/48
  • PHOTO Service Motor Compan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Service Motor Company Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardner Inc OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardner Inc OH averages 0.7 TCR (30% 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 OH TCR series: 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Gardner Inc OH falls in its industry

700 Lawn maintenance machinery and establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 48 Lawn maintenance machinery and employers in Ohio.

Gardner Inc OH (161 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 OH
Gardner Inc OH (161 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Gardner Inc OH 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 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2023 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · OH · Columbus

700 Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers 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 Service Motor Company Corporate 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Plains II LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Athens GA 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Transmission Op Ctr New Albany 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matrix5 Site Development 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trans Ash, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apollo Home 161 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 HoneywellLA04 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Heart Utilities of Jacksonville 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Conterra Longview 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Krainick Dairy LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE KHS&S Contractors - Las Vegas 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Propulsion Technologies International 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Greensboro- Libraries 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE CDCR CCHCS Northern Region - 064 161 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.