Distribution Center · Michigan

Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus

Romulus, MI · ~76 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Distribution Center workplace, earning a grade A.

Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus: 1.4 TCR = 43% of Distribution Center BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus safety composite

Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus: 1.1 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2023

Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.1 in 2022 to 1.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325320 · Romulus, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 43% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Platte Chemical LPI MS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Platte Chemical LPI MS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus averages 1.4 TCR (43% of the Distribution Center BLS benchmark).

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

Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus falls in its industry

145 Distribution Center establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Distribution Center employers in Michigan.

Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus (76 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus
Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus (76 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Hawthorne Gardening - Romulus has fewer employees than the Distribution Center median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · MI · Romulus

145 Distribution Center employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 199 employers in Romulus, MI · 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 Platte Chemical LPI MS 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liphatech, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Helena Industries, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Life Science - Dallas 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fluresh Grand Rapids 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Operation Grow, LLC 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Energy Developments 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benton Harbor Service Center 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DTW1 3,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DTW1 3,502 FTE
CITY-NEAR Romulus Powertrain 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Romulus 1,037 FTE
NAT-TCR Rudick Construction Group 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR YMCA of Greenville 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Memphis, Tn #00085 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Parts Authority Yonkers - Miele 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Malcolm Drilling FL 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE wedi Corp 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eversource - Torrington 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Central Regional Library 76 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. 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.