House plant growing · California

Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc.

Vista, CA · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. runs at 427% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical House plant growing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc.: 19.2 TCR = 427% of House plant growing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. safety composite

Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

TCR Δ

−16.9

2021→2022

Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. injury rate improved

Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc.'s TCR fell 16.9 from 27.7 in 2021 to 10.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 27.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=27.7 · 2022=10.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Vista, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.2 · 427% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #29/33
  • PHOTO Ivy Acres- PA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ivy Acres- PA (0.2 TCR gap)

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Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. averages 19.2 TCR (427% of the House plant growing BLS benchmark).

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

Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. TCR series: 2021=27.7 · 2022=10.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. falls in its industry

166 House plant growing establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 33 House plant growing employers in California.

Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 19.2) 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 Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc.
Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 19.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. has fewer employees than the House plant growing median and a higher 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
2022 10.8 10.8 5 0 0
2021 27.7 27.7 6 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · CA · Vista

166 House plant growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 197 employers in Vista, CA · 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 Ivy Acres- PA 19.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Masson Farms of New Mexico, Inc 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (Greenhouse) 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenhouses 16.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR 05-CACTUS 1,065 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cactus - 05 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista HQ 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01-CORP 522 FTE
NAT-TCR DHS-Glenwood Resource Center 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Point Senior Living 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PalletSource, Inc. 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pueblo Truss Co., Inc. 19.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Payne & Dolan, Inc - Washington/Ozaukee 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG133 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barber Spring Ohio 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6957-BHM 40 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.