Garden centers · Virginia

Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA

Richmond, VA · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA runs at 409% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA: 13.9 TCR = 409% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA safety composite

Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA: 14.6 → 21.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 21.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA's TCR rose 6.6 from 14.6 in 2022 to 21.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Richmond, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.9 · 409% of ind

  • DART 15.1 DART
  • RANK #29/32
  • PHOTO RK-040-Benton ( RK-0…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-040-Benton ( RK-040 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA averages 13.9 TCR (409% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA TCR series: 2022=14.6 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=21.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 32 Garden centers employers in Virginia.

Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA (58 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA
Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA (58 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA has more employees than the Garden centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 21.2 15.1 7 0 0
2023 5.9 5.9 2 0 0
2022 14.6 8.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · VA · Richmond

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 939 employers in Richmond, VA · 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 RK-040-Benton ( RK-040 ) 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR STUDLEY FLOWER GARDENS, INC 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern States Winchester Coop. 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern States West Broad Street Service 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lynchburg Service Center 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE 341-NiSource-Vint Hill VA 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golkin Corporation dba Paul Davis Restoration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Convert Solar 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU 5,271 FTE
CITY-NEAR CJW Medical Center 3,259 FTE
NAT-TCR Allina Health Eagan Clinic 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Buttermilk Ski Area 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairmount Foundry Inc. 13.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE First In Cargo 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watson Truck & Supply, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE S.S. Hert Trucking, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elanco Elwood 58 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. 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.