Cut flower growing · California

Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc.

Santa Maria, CA · ~185 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cut flower growing workplace, earning a grade C.

Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 111% of Cut flower growing BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. safety composite

Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc.: 4.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2023

Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 4.0 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 111% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #7/33
  • PHOTO Van Wingerden Intern…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Van Wingerden International (0.1 TCR gap)

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Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (111% of the Cut flower growing BLS benchmark).

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

Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=2 · 2020=5.5 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. falls in its industry

166 Cut flower growing establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 33 Cut flower growing employers in California.

Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. (185 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc.
Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. (185 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. has more employees than the Cut flower growing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2023 4.8 3.4 7 0 0
2022 6.3 5.2 11 0 0
2020 5.5 4.1 3 5 0
2019 2.0 1.5 4 0 0
2018 7.3 5.1 13 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · CA · Santa Maria

166 Cut flower growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, CA · 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 Van Wingerden International 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenhouse 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Costa Layman, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-State Turf of NC 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE George Chiala Farms, Inc. 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE JSJ Harvesting, LLC 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE VLC FARM LABOR, INC 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Foothill S/C 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR CTI Construction 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carris Health-Willmar Skylark Clinic 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sure Power, Inc. - Ridley Park 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Machinery Repair 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Innovative Concepts in Entertainment, Inc. 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantages Associated Inc. 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centrica Business Solutions Services 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preston Contractors 185 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.