Nursery stock growing · California

King City Nursery

King City, CA · ~66 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

King City Nursery runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade D.

King City Nursery: 7.6 TCR = 169% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

King City Nursery safety composite

King City Nursery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−2.4

2016→2024

King City Nursery injury rate improved

King City Nursery's TCR fell 2.4 from 8.4 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.4 · 2017=10.9 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=11.0 · 2020=14.4 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · King City, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #94/120
  • PHOTO Van Essen Nursery Co…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Van Essen Nursery Company Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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King City Nursery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows King City Nursery averages 7.6 TCR (169% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

King City Nursery TCR series: 2016=8.4 · 2017=10.9 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=11 · 2020=14.4 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.5

Where King City Nursery falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #94 safest of 120 Nursery stock growing employers in California.

King City Nursery (66 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 King City Nursery
King City Nursery (66 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

King City Nursery has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a higher 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 6.0 3.6 5 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2022 6.3 3.8 5 0 0
2021 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2020 14.4 11.1 13 0 0
2019 11.0 7.0 11 0 0
2018 5.2 2.6 4 0 0
2017 10.9 5.4 6 0 0
2016 8.4 4.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · King City

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 31 employers in King City, 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 Van Essen Nursery Company Inc 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR KCK Farms LLC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treeland TF8 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GNW INC 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nuseed Americas, Inc., West Sacramento Innovation Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORGANIC BUNCH HARVESTING 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navco Berry Harvest 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE kings orchards, llc 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGP FARM LABOR LLC 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rio Farms 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farming 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvest 259 FTE
NAT-TCR Spotsylvania Towne Centre 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux Falls Specialty Hospital 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR IKEA #207 Sunrise 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 067 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lexington LEX 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1170 LKQ of Tennessee 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE O'Rourke & Sons, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bopp-Busch Manufacturing Company - Plant 2 66 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.