Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) · California

Growest

Riverside, CA · ~321 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Growest runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) workplace, earning a grade F.

Growest: 13.1 TCR = 291% of Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Growest safety composite

Growest scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Growest: 3.5 → 22.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 22.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.73× in 2021

Growest's TCR rose 19.2 from 3.5 in 2019 to 22.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Riverside, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.1 · 291% of ind

  • DART 22.7 DART
  • RANK #115/120
  • PHOTO Fernlea Nurseries - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~321 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fernlea Nurseries - Carp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Growest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Growest averages 13.1 TCR (291% of the Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS benchmark).

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

Growest TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2021=22.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Growest falls in its industry

386 Nursery with tree production ( establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #115 safest of 120 Nursery with tree production ( employers in California.

Growest (321 employees, TCR 13.1) 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 Growest
Growest (321 employees, TCR 13.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Growest has more employees than the Nursery with tree production (except for median and a higher 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
2021 22.7 22.7 11 0 0
2019 3.5 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Riverside

386 Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 536 employers in Riverside, 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 Fernlea Nurseries - Carp 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weston Nurseries 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-G Sod Farms of Fresno 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nursery 13.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE House Foods America Coorporation 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danone North America - City of Industry 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE Space and Airborne Systems : CA, San Diego - 9020 Balboa Ave. (SAS-SS) 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meggitt (North Hollywood), INC. 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Riverside 8,676 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-21 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Community Hospital 2,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08681351 RIVERSIDE MED CENTER 2,349 FTE
NAT-TCR Midwest General Repair and Fabrication 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Elim Shores Independent and Assisted Living 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Union County Health & Rehab Center 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PCC Community Markets Burien 13.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 205-DC350 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-NY11 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE AHHQ - Faurecia Interior System 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate office 321 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: 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.