Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Oregon

Gardner Inc. Salem

Salem, OR · ~58 workers · 2 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. Salem runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Gardner Inc. Salem: 1.3 TCR = 59% of Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner Inc. Salem safety composite

Gardner Inc. Salem scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−2.6

2023→2024

Gardner Inc. Salem injury rate improved

Gardner Inc. Salem's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Salem, OR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO KTC - Northern Divis…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KTC - Northern Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardner Inc. Salem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardner Inc. Salem averages 1.3 TCR (59% 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. Salem TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Gardner Inc. Salem 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 Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Lawn maintenance machinery and employers in Oregon.

Gardner Inc. Salem (58 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. Salem
Gardner Inc. Salem (58 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. Salem 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · OR · Salem

700 Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 471 employers in Salem, OR · 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 KTC - Northern Division 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crosby Hops Farm, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BIRKEY'S FARM STORE, INC. - OAKLAND 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardner Inc NC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Providence Nursery LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Odell 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Region 2 -Corvallis 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oregon State Hospital-Salem Campus 2,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PDX7 1,559 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chemeketa Community College 1,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Human Service Building ODHS 1,402 FTE
NAT-TCR Overland Materials & Manufacturing 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Weaver Consultants Group, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Owens Corning 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Halethorpe 10167 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Current, LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service Electric Of Allen County, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE OD Greene Lumber Co Inc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 002 58 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. 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.