Garden power equipment stores · North Carolina

Hertford

Hertford, NC · ~15 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hertford runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Garden power equipment stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Hertford: 3.6 TCR = 106% of Garden power equipment stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hertford safety composite

Hertford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Hertford: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2024

Hertford's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444210 · Hertford, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 106% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO Fresno Equipment Com…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fresno Equipment Company- Five Points (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hertford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hertford averages 3.6 TCR (106% of the Garden power equipment stores BLS benchmark).

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

Hertford TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=7 · 2022=6.3 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Hertford falls in its industry

136 Garden power equipment stores establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Garden power equipment stores employers in North Carolina.

Hertford (15 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 28 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hertford
Hertford (15 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 28 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Hertford has fewer employees than the Garden power equipment stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2022 6.3 6.3 1 0 0
2021 7.0 7.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444210 · NC · Hertford

136 Garden power equipment stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Hertford, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Fresno Equipment Company- Five Points 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerlachs Garden & Power Equipment- Garden Center Division 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TriGreen Equipment Hendersonville 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TriGreen Equipment Scottsboro 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Strickland Farms, Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Camden 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Raleigh 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvey Gin 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perquimans County 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01218 - STORE # 1218 HERTFORD 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1218 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZELI 66 FTE
NAT-TCR Pinole Grocery Outlet 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Longstreet Clinic 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nebo 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant QM 3.6 TCR

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, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.