Garden centers · Virginia

Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond

Richmond, VA · ~43 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond runs at 320% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond: 10.9 TCR = 320% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond safety composite

Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2016→2020

Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond injury rate improved

Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond's TCR fell 4.8 from 14.4 in 2016 to 9.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.4 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=13.2 · 2020=9.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 320% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #24/32
  • PHOTO Lena Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lena Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond averages 10.9 TCR (320% 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 - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond TCR series: 2016=14.4 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=13.2 · 2020=9.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #24 safest of 32 Garden centers employers in Virginia.

Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond (43 employees, TCR 10.9) 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 - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond
Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond (43 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Meadows Farms - The Great Big Greenhouse, Richmond has fewer 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
2020 9.7 6.4 3 0 0
2019 13.2 6.6 4 0 0
2018 10.2 6.8 3 0 0
2017 6.9 3.5 2 0 0
2016 14.4 10.8 4 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 Lena Plant 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUMMERWINDS NURSERY - CAMPBELL 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brunswick 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-132-Mt. Vernon (RK-132) 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tahoe Hydro 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Elkwood 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prospect Solar LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water and Sewer 43 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 Feld Entertainment Trolls Experience 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Belhaven Nursing and Rehabilitation 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR S09913 - Capitol Hauling 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4765-FATCX0UPS 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 22 Mooney North 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 30 Santa Maria 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 54 Dover 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schenker, Inc. (4320-OR1) Hillsboro 43 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: 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.