Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing · Ohio

Hoover Gardens & Gifts

Westerville, OH · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hoover Gardens & Gifts runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hoover Gardens & Gifts: 4.3 TCR = 95% of Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hoover Gardens & Gifts safety composite

Hoover Gardens & Gifts scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Hoover Gardens & Gifts: 0.0 → 64.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 64.3 TCR · DART/TCR 15.09× in 2023

Hoover Gardens & Gifts's TCR rose 64.3 from 0.0 in 2021 to 64.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 15.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Westerville, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 95% of ind

  • DART 64.3 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Costa Color, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Costa Color, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hoover Gardens & Gifts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hoover Gardens & Gifts averages 4.3 TCR (95% of the Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing BLS benchmark).

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

Hoover Gardens & Gifts TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=64.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Hoover Gardens & Gifts falls in its industry

166 Plant, potted flower and folia establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Plant, potted flower and folia employers in Ohio.

Hoover Gardens & Gifts (41 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hoover Gardens & Gifts
Hoover Gardens & Gifts (41 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Hoover Gardens & Gifts has fewer employees than the Plant, potted flower and foliage, growin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 64.3 64.3 0 8 0
2022 8.5 8.5 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · OH · Westerville

166 Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 141 employers in Westerville, OH · 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 Costa Color, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (IN) 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR W J Griffin, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schuster's Greenhouse 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Growers LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loadout Building 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrison Hub FRAC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consolidated Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Mount Gilead facility) 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Carmel St. Ann's Hospital 1,966 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westerville - 360 Westar Boulevard 1,505 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid-City Electric 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA Svc ERS 391 FTE
NAT-TCR A-1 Express Trucking, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Northstar 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1113 Abington Heights School District 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Machine 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE UN1F1ED2RI 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oklahoma Chiller Corporation 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adc South 5035 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frey Holding Corporation 41 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, 2021. 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.