Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) · Ohio

Maria Gardens

Columbia Station, OH · ~68 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Maria Gardens runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) workplace, earning a grade D.

Maria Gardens: 5.9 TCR = 131% of Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Maria Gardens safety composite

Maria Gardens scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−5.8

2016→2023

Maria Gardens injury rate improved

Maria Gardens's TCR fell 5.8 from 11.9 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.9 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Columbia Station, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Olson's Greenhouse G…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Olson's Greenhouse Gardens (0.0 TCR gap)

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Maria Gardens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Maria Gardens averages 5.9 TCR (131% of the Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) BLS benchmark).

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

Maria Gardens TCR series: 2016=11.9 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=0 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=6.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Maria Gardens falls in its industry

386 Field nurseries (i.e., growing establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Field nurseries (i.e., growing employers in Ohio.

Maria Gardens (68 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 Maria Gardens
Maria Gardens (68 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Maria Gardens has more employees than the Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flower 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
2023 6.1 0.0 4 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 10.1 2.0 5 0 0
2018 4.5 0.0 2 0 0
2017 4.2 0.0 2 0 0
2016 11.9 2.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · OH · Columbia Station

386 Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 8 employers in Columbia Station, OH · 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 Olson's Greenhouse Gardens 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monrovia Woodlake 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rice Experiment Station 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodburn Nursery & Azaleas, Inc. 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE FarmaceuticalRX LLC OH 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 1 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 4 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chillicothe Svc Ctr 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Villa Camillus 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Villa Camillus, Inc. 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaway Bolt & Specials Corp. 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Casa Verde 54 FTE
NAT-TCR Theisen's of Jefferson 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TBS Construction, Inc 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Zoeller Pump Company 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewisgale Hospital Pulaski 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Specialty Minerals Inc. 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlsbad HQ 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allegheny Bradford Corporation - LD 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flow Management Devices 68 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.