Garden centers · New York

Hicks Nurseries, Inc

Westbury, NY · ~196 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hicks Nurseries, Inc runs at 361% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Hicks Nurseries, Inc: 12.3 TCR = 361% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hicks Nurseries, Inc safety composite

Hicks Nurseries, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.0

2018→2024

Hicks Nurseries, Inc injury rate improved

Hicks Nurseries, Inc's TCR fell 8.0 from 19.0 in 2018 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=19.0 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=10.0 · 2024=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Westbury, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.3 · 361% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Southern States Quee…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern States Queen Anne's County Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hicks Nurseries, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hicks Nurseries, Inc averages 12.3 TCR (361% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Hicks Nurseries, Inc TCR series: 2018=19 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=10 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Hicks Nurseries, Inc falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Garden centers employers in New York.

Hicks Nurseries, Inc (196 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hicks Nurseries, Inc
Hicks Nurseries, Inc (196 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Hicks Nurseries, Inc has more employees than the Garden centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 11.1 10.2 13 0 0
2023 10.0 8.7 14 1 0
2022 9.1 4.5 14 0 0
2018 19.0 6.3 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · NY · Westbury

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 57 employers in Westbury, NY · 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 Southern States Queen Anne's County Plant 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 720 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terrain 3002 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-125-LaPorte (RK-125) 12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Saputo Dairy Foods 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Currier Plastics 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE WILTON #039 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE PLATTSBURGH #168 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR NY-03 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR NY-01 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR 972 Brush Hollow Rd 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR DRS Food Inc. Dba Dominos 646 FTE
NAT-TCR Three Valleys Municipal Water District 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR W Hollywood 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - SBD3 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR OEM Tube Assemblies - Chipley 12.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Findlay Products Corp. 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE HealthTrust San Antonio Supply Chain 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE NTK Precision Axle 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milliken Gilliland Plant 196 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, 2022, 2018. 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.