Nursery stock growing · California

L E Cooke Co

Visalia, CA · ~79 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L E Cooke Co runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade B.

L E Cooke Co: 3.3 TCR = 74% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L E Cooke Co safety composite

L E Cooke Co scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−1.7

2017→2018

L E Cooke Co injury rate improved

L E Cooke Co's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.2 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.2 · 2018=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Visalia, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #27/120
  • PHOTO Dewar Nurseries, Inc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Mount Dora (0.0 TCR gap)

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L E Cooke Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L E Cooke Co averages 3.3 TCR (74% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

L E Cooke Co TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2018=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where L E Cooke Co falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #27 safest of 120 Nursery stock growing employers in California.

L E Cooke Co (79 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 L E Cooke Co
L E Cooke Co (79 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

L E Cooke Co has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a lower 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
2018 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.2 4.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Visalia

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, 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 Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Mount Dora 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Sod Farms 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foertmeyer & Sons Greenhouse 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4605_10312 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crisalida Berry Farms, LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOBI'S 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Maricopa 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Valley Nut Company Inc. 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR KWF Sarasota, FL 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 659 Monroe ROC 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Williams Civil Construction 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of Bloomfield LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Runnings of Dickinson 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenwood Springs (Cogle) 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Branch Center (Miwbr) 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Cruces (Nmlas) 79 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: 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.