Garden centers · Ohio

Oakland Nursery - Columbus

Columbus, OH · ~183 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oakland Nursery - Columbus runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade D.

Oakland Nursery - Columbus: 5.0 TCR = 147% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oakland Nursery - Columbus safety composite

Oakland Nursery - Columbus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Oakland Nursery - Columbus: 2.8 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

Oakland Nursery - Columbus's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.8 in 2019 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 147% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #24/62
  • PHOTO Strader's Garden Cen…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Strader's Garden Centers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oakland Nursery - Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oakland Nursery - Columbus averages 5.0 TCR (147% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Oakland Nursery - Columbus TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=5.7 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Oakland Nursery - Columbus falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 62 Garden centers employers in Ohio.

Oakland Nursery - Columbus (183 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Oakland Nursery - Columbus
Oakland Nursery - Columbus (183 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Oakland Nursery - Columbus has more employees than the Garden centers median and a lower 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 4.4 2.9 6 0 0
2022 5.7 1.4 8 0 0
2021 6.7 4.5 7 2 0
2020 5.3 2.3 7 0 0
2019 2.8 1.9 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · OH · Columbus

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, 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 Strader's Garden Centers 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Donald DC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-103-Pikeville ( RK-103 ) 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stein's Garden & Home Mequon Store 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Municipal Energy Services Agency 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Foods Group 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE kdc/one Aromair 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE B & B Molded Products Inc. 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Marin General Hospital Corp 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR OakLeaf Surgical Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkersburg WV 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Healthcare Services 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kimpton Epic Hotel 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tailor Welded Blanks Monroe 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westfalia Technologies 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Citadel Post Acute 183 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.