House plant growing · Connecticut

Grower Direct Farms

Somers, CT · ~82 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grower Direct Farms runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical House plant growing workplace, earning a grade F.

Grower Direct Farms: 11.3 TCR = 251% of House plant growing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grower Direct Farms safety composite

Grower Direct Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−1.9

2021→2024

Grower Direct Farms injury rate improved

Grower Direct Farms's TCR fell 1.9 from 3.0 in 2021 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 33.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.0 · 2022=33.7 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Somers, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 251% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK P9
  • PHOTO Star Roses and Plants
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Star Roses and Plants (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grower Direct Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grower Direct Farms averages 11.3 TCR (251% of the House plant growing BLS benchmark).

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

Grower Direct Farms TCR series: 2021=3 · 2022=33.7 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Grower Direct Farms falls in its industry

166 House plant growing establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Grower Direct Farms (82 employees, TCR 11.3) 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 Grower Direct Farms
Grower Direct Farms (82 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Grower Direct Farms has more employees than the House plant growing median and a higher 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
2024 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 7.4 4.9 6 0 0
2022 33.7 5.6 6 0 0
2021 3.0 1.5 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · CT · Somers

166 House plant growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 13 employers in Somers, CT · 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 Star Roses and Plants 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Sioux Falls SD 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dettling Farms, Inc. 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunshine Floral, LLC 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silktown Roofing, Inc./Manchester CT 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Windsor Service 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aerospace Techniques Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wallingford, CT 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osborn Correctional Institution 319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headquarter 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Correctional Institution 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osborn Correctional institution - Health services 161 FTE
NAT-TCR 2974 Swn106 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amber Waves Inc 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Victoria Gardens of Frisco 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Northview Window & Door LLC 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jamestown Complex 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oasis Materials Company 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charleston Service Center 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Player and Company LLC 82 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, 2021. 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.