Nursery stock growing · North Carolina

Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc

Monroe, NC · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc: 5.8 TCR = 129% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc safety composite

Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc held a steady TCR band

Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.9 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2017=11.7 · 2019=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Monroe, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/17
  • PHOTO Bradshaw
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bradshaw (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc averages 5.8 TCR (129% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=11.7 · 2019=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 17 Nursery stock growing employers in North Carolina.

Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc (32 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc
Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc (32 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Lathams Nursery Inc. - Monroe, Nc has fewer 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
2019 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 11.7 0.0 4 0 0
2016 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · NC · Monroe

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 163 employers in Monroe, NC · 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 Bradshaw 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-G Sod Farms, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOME NURSERY 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDSI 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE T.C. Smith Produce Farm 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Wendell Farming Co. LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monroe Plant 1,584 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0060-CHS Union 1,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0060-Atrium Health Union 1,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1108-Atrium Health Union (1108) 1,041 FTE
NAT-TCR HHC - SR83 Project 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Max & Erma's Dublin 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas - Fort Worth Airport (HR) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Freightliner of Savannah, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE PPC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Digger's Landscaping, Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northeast Arkansas Motors Inc DBA Honda of Jonesboro 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 95 Factory Road 32 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.