Garden centers · Maryland

Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail

Davidsonville, MD · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail runs at 629% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail: 21.4 TCR = 629% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail safety composite

Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−35.7

2017→2020

Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail injury rate improved

Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail's TCR fell 35.7 from 35.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 35.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=35.7 · 2018=14.3 · 2019=35.6 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Davidsonville, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.4 · 629% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Armstrong Garden Cen…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Armstrong Garden Centers 716 (0.3 TCR gap)

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Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail averages 21.4 TCR (629% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail TCR series: 2017=35.7 · 2018=14.3 · 2019=35.6 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Garden centers employers in Maryland.

Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail (30 employees, TCR 21.4) 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail
Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail (30 employees, TCR 21.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail has fewer 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 35.6 21.4 5 0 0
2018 14.3 14.3 2 0 0
2017 35.7 26.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · MD · Davidsonville

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 6 employers in Davidsonville, MD · 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 Armstrong Garden Centers 716 21.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otten Brothers Nursery & Landscaping, Inc. 20.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms 22.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Headquarter 20.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wildcat Point Generation Facility 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oliver Homes, Inc. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2016106 - NIST Building 245 Modernization T.O. #1 & 6 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Life Science Products, Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homestead Gardens, Inc. - Davidsonville 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clippers 773 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homestead Gardens, Inc. - Landscape Division 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR PW HWY SOUTHERN ROADS - DAVIDSONVILLE 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Alexandria MW LLC - Distribution 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Augustana Chapel View #092 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Catering Corp. DBA Sky Caterers 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Peak Resources-Alamance 21.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE service wholesale inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Hills Manor 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE KCKCS 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE North West Medical Center - Bentonville 30 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: 2020, 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.