Nursery stock growing · California

Growing Grounds

Canoga Park, CA · ~40 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Growing Grounds runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade B.

Growing Grounds: 2.8 TCR = 63% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Growing Grounds safety composite

Growing Grounds scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Growing Grounds: 0.0 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Growing Grounds's TCR rose 6.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Canoga Park, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/120
  • PHOTO ACTION SOD & LANDSCA…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ACTION SOD & LANDSCAPE GARDENS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Growing Grounds in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Growing Grounds averages 2.8 TCR (63% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Growing Grounds TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Growing Grounds falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #20 safest of 120 Nursery stock growing employers in California.

Growing Grounds (40 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Growing Grounds
Growing Grounds (40 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Growing Grounds has fewer 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 6.5 0.0 2 0 0
2023 6.4 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Canoga Park

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 68 employers in Canoga Park, 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 ACTION SOD & LANDSCAPE GARDENS 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunbelt Greenhouses, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tonopah 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winters 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aerojet Rocketdyne - Los Angeles 1,422 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aerojet Rocketdyne - Canoga Park 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Topanga 503 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Police Department, Topanga Division 262 FTE
NAT-TCR Norwich Pec 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Action Gypsum Supply West Hayward 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USA West Palm Beach 2005 Belvedere Rd 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Webasto Roof Systems Inc. - New Hudson 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cimino Box and Pallet LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Right Electric 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Biscayne Roofing and Waterproofing Systems 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rbs - Lakeland 40 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.