Garden centers · Minnesota

Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center

Rochester, MN · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade C.

Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center safety composite

Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% 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%).

Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center held a steady TCR band

Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.0 TCR.

2017=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Rochester, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/15
  • PHOTO Buffalo Store
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Buffalo Store (0.2 TCR gap)

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Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center TCR series: 2017=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 15 Garden centers employers in Minnesota.

Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center (18 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center
Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center (18 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Jim Whiting Nursery & Garden Center has fewer employees than the Garden centers median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · MN · Rochester

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Buffalo Store 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Family Farm & Home Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-950- Corporate ( RK-950 ) 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stein's Garden & Home Home Office 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE WPI-Fieldstaff 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN Magnum 003-0138-MA 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mesabi Metallics 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vigen Construction- Erskine 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR Creekside 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Point32Health Quincy 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Point32Health Providence 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Koeze Company 0.0 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017. 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.