Nursery stock growing · California

Growers Transplanting

Salinas, CA · ~107 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Growers Transplanting runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade A.

Growers Transplanting: 1.6 TCR = 36% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Growers Transplanting safety composite

Growers Transplanting scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Growers Transplanting: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Growers Transplanting's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2019 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Salinas, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 36% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #10/120
  • PHOTO Land's Palm Trees, I…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Land's Palm Trees, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Growers Transplanting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Growers Transplanting averages 1.6 TCR (36% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Growers Transplanting TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=4 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Growers Transplanting falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 120 Nursery stock growing employers in California.

Growers Transplanting (107 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Growers Transplanting
Growers Transplanting (107 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Growers Transplanting has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 1.8 1.8 3 3 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.0 3.4 7 0 0
2020 2.4 1.1 6 3 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Salinas

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 Land's Palm Trees, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Losely 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell Nursery - Marydel 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Munger Bros, LLC 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fondomonte California LLC - Blythe Ranch 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Coast Tomato Growers, Inc. 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE ZONNEVELD DAIRIES, INC. 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Grovin Construction 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CCL Sleeve 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Foam/Sealed Air 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR New England Gypsum Manchester 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gerrity's Supermarkets, West Pittston 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fitzgerald Finishing LLC 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jameson Care Center Inc 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckeye Forest at Fairfield 107 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.