Nursery stock growing · Oregon

Highland Meadow Nursery

Molalla, OR · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highland Meadow Nursery runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade B.

Highland Meadow Nursery: 3.1 TCR = 68% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highland Meadow Nursery safety composite

Highland Meadow Nursery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Highland Meadow Nursery: 2.4 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2024

Highland Meadow Nursery's TCR rose 1.9 from 2.4 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Molalla, OR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 68% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #10/46
  • PHOTO Elite Growers, Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elite Growers, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highland Meadow Nursery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highland Meadow Nursery averages 3.1 TCR (68% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Highland Meadow Nursery TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.2 · 2021=7.4 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Highland Meadow Nursery falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 46 Nursery stock growing employers in Oregon.

Highland Meadow Nursery (42 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Highland Meadow Nursery
Highland Meadow Nursery (42 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Highland Meadow Nursery 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 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2023 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2021 7.4 7.4 3 0 0
2019 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · OR · Molalla

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 24 employers in Molalla, OR · 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 Elite Growers, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cairo 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Floricultura Pacific INC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treco Oregon Rootstock and Tree Co Inc 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kiyokawa Family Orchards 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE ZX Ranch - Paisley 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREENUP ENTERPRISES, INC. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE PLUMLEY CONTRACTING CO INC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanders Wood Products 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brentwood Corporation 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0019-0019-01751 FAC-01751-MOLALLA-OR 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6400-SWY-0019-0019-01751 164 FTE
NAT-TCR Jesup 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Worthington High School 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ball Beverage Pkg 157 Tampa 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ptcr Lithia Springs 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hard Rock Concrete Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deines-Nitz Solutions 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Kern Water District 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Appleton 131 42 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.