Nursery stock growing · California

Plantel Nurseries Inc.

Santa Maria, CA · ~312 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Plantel Nurseries Inc. runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade A.

Plantel Nurseries Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 39% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plantel Nurseries Inc. safety composite

Plantel Nurseries Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Plantel Nurseries Inc.: 1.9 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.16× in 2024

Plantel Nurseries Inc.'s TCR rose 0.4 from 1.9 in 2017 to 2.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Santa Maria, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #12/120
  • PHOTO TLG TURF
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~312 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TLG TURF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plantel Nurseries Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plantel Nurseries Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (39% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Plantel Nurseries Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Plantel Nurseries Inc. falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 120 Nursery stock growing employers in California.

Plantel Nurseries Inc. (312 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Plantel Nurseries Inc.
Plantel Nurseries Inc. (312 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Plantel Nurseries Inc. has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a lower 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 2.3 0.3 8 0 0
2023 2.1 0.9 7 0 0
2022 1.3 0.0 4 0 0
2021 0.9 0.9 3 0 0
2020 1.8 0.6 5 1 1
2019 1.6 0.3 6 0 0
2018 2.2 0.2 10 0 0
2017 1.9 0.6 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Santa Maria

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 TLG TURF 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treesap Farms LLC - Homestead 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nakase Brothers Wholesale Nursery AZ 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlantic Nurseries, Inc. 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE LADWP 6801 2ND 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dome Construction Corporation 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central CA 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leprino Foods Company 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Bearse Manufacturing Co 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sharon Healthcare Elms 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #266 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Beverage Company, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southeastern Virginia Training Center 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Erlanger Main Es 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Nevada Supply 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tolin Mechanical Systems Company 312 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.