Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing · Pennsylvania

North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping)

Oxford, PA · ~39 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing workplace, earning a grade D.

North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping): 6.2 TCR = 137% of Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) safety composite

North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping): 3.4 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 377.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping)'s TCR rose 1.3 from 3.4 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 377.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Oxford, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 137% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO TIMBUK FARMS INC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TIMBUK FARMS INC (0.1 TCR gap)

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North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) averages 6.2 TCR (137% of the Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing BLS benchmark).

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

North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=15.6 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=377 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=283.5 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) falls in its industry

166 Plug (i.e., floriculture produ establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 Plug (i.e., floriculture produ employers in Pennsylvania.

North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) (39 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping)
North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) (39 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) has fewer employees than the Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2023 283.5 141.7 2 0 0
2022 4.3 2.1 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 377.0 377.0 2 0 0
2019 15.1 3.8 4 0 0
2018 15.6 0.0 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.4 3.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · PA · Oxford

166 Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 18 employers in Oxford, PA · 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 TIMBUK FARMS INC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ivy Acres - NY 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coastal Greenhouses, LLC -NY 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BATTLEFIELD FARMS INC. 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sylvan PA 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monterey Mushrooms, LLC.- Temple, PA 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strad USA Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5795 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5795 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR FBCOxford - Oxford 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flowers Baking Company of Oxford, Inc. 292 FTE
NAT-TCR Mammoth Hospital 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Unitex 10B 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NAJ Trucking 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 15 Hildebran 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oelwein Mission Services 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abide, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centerra Co-op, Ashland Corporate 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vigliotti Recycling Corp. 39 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, 2021, 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.