Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) · Connecticut

Planters' Choice Nursery LLC

Newtown, CT · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Planters' Choice Nursery LLC runs at 312% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) workplace, earning a grade F.

Planters' Choice Nursery LLC: 14.0 TCR = 312% of Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Planters' Choice Nursery LLC safety composite

Planters' Choice Nursery LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.6

2022→2023

Planters' Choice Nursery LLC injury rate improved

Planters' Choice Nursery LLC's TCR fell 7.6 from 17.8 in 2022 to 10.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=17.8 · 2023=10.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Newtown, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 312% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Main Office
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Office (0.1 TCR gap)

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Planters' Choice Nursery LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Planters' Choice Nursery LLC averages 14.0 TCR (312% of the Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS benchmark).

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

Planters' Choice Nursery LLC TCR series: 2022=17.8 · 2023=10.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Planters' Choice Nursery LLC falls in its industry

386 Nursery with tree production ( establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Nursery with tree production ( employers in Connecticut.

Planters' Choice Nursery LLC (41 employees, TCR 14.0) 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 Planters' Choice Nursery LLC
Planters' Choice Nursery LLC (41 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Planters' Choice Nursery LLC has fewer employees than the Nursery with tree production (except for 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
2023 10.2 0.0 4 0 0
2022 17.8 5.9 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CT · Newtown

386 Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 29 employers in Newtown, CT · 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 Main Office 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR White Flower Farm Morris 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taisuco America Corporation 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAUVIE BAILEY NURSERIES INC 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Berlin Gas 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hartford Water Pollution Control Facility 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE F.J. Dahill Co., Inc 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Newtown 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hubbell Newtown 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR 226_5827 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maplewood at Newtown 145 FTE
NAT-TCR Delta 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DBA Diversicare of Sedgwick LP 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Avante at Mount Dora 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1621 E Aurora Ave 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE FleetLogix- Palm Springs 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE CPC Printing & Promotions 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5024 Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4026 Roberts Wesleyan College 41 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.