Azalea farming · California
Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House
Los Angeles, CA · ~72 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 5.7
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Azalea farming workplace, earning a grade D.
Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Azalea farming BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House safety composite
Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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).
57/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- D 5.69 per 100 workers
Safer than 38% 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%).
Rising injury rate
Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House: 2.9 → 8.0 TCR
Peak year 2019 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024
Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House's TCR rose 5.1 from 2.9 in 2018 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 111421 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind
- DART 0.0 DART
- RANK #69/120
- PHOTO Means Nursery, Inc.
- BOOK 6y book
- INJ 13 inj
- SIZE ~72 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Means Nursery, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)
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Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House
5.7 TCR
- Means Nursery,
Means Nursery, Inc.
5.7 TCR
- Puget Sound Pl
Puget Sound Plants Inc.
5.7 TCR
- Olson's Greenh
Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC
5.7 TCR
- Devil Mountrai
Devil Mountrain Wholesale Nursery-Clements
5.7 TCR
What this shows Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Azalea farming BLS benchmark).
Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House TCR series: 2018=2.9 · 2019=10 · 2020=5.7 · 2022=7.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=8 · BLS 4.5
Where Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House falls in its industry
386 Azalea farming establishmentsSafer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.
Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 120 Azalea farming employers in California.
Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House has more employees than the Azalea farming 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
111421 · CA · Los Angeles
386 Azalea farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, 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 | Means Nursery, Inc. | 5.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Puget Sound Plants Inc. | 5.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC | 5.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Devil Mountrain Wholesale Nursery-Clements | 5.7 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Monterey Pacific, LLC | 72 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Arts Ranch | 72 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Greg Hooker dba Diamond H Dairy | 72 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Mark Greenspan | 72 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. | 50,317 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | UC Los Angeles | 40,333 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | LADWP | 11,717 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Los Angeles Department of Water and Power | 10,346 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Q10 Property Advisors LLC | 5.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Kraft Mold | 5.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Dixie Plywood and Lumber Company of Fort Lauderdale | 5.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Store 1089 | 5.7 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Fareway Stores, Inc. 888 Jefferson | 72 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Cheraw IGA #657 | 72 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Schaefffler Group USA Inc. - Fort Mill 2 | 72 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Brown Memorial Home | 72 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.