Nursery stock growing · California

Plug Connection - San Marcos

San Marcos, CA · ~36 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plug Connection - San Marcos runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade C.

Plug Connection - San Marcos: 3.6 TCR = 80% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plug Connection - San Marcos safety composite

Plug Connection - San Marcos scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Plug Connection - San Marcos: 0.0 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.44× in 2023

Plug Connection - San Marcos's TCR rose 11.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 11.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · San Marcos, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #30/120
  • PHOTO Treeland TSJ
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Treeland TSJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plug Connection - San Marcos in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plug Connection - San Marcos averages 3.6 TCR (80% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Plug Connection - San Marcos TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=11.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Plug Connection - San Marcos falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 66% 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 #30 safest of 120 Nursery stock growing employers in California.

Plug Connection - San Marcos (36 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 Plug Connection - San Marcos
Plug Connection - San Marcos (36 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Plug Connection - San Marcos has fewer 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
2023 11.8 8.8 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · San Marcos

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 139 employers in San Marcos, 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 Treeland TSJ 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brentano's Tree Farm LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Noble Mountain Tree Farm 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SS BAILEY NURSERIES INC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hunter Industries 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08180552 SAN MARCOS MEDICAL CENTER 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR CASMR - SAN MARCOS 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAN MARCOS (CASMR) 555 FTE
NAT-TCR PPG Texas Operations (Texstars) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas City (Versa Flex) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fiesta # 77 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Philadelphia Marriott Downtown 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hilldrup Companies, Inc.- Richmond, VA 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murphy Elem School 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chick Workholding Solutions, Inc. @ 500 Keystone Drive 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hannaford Agronomy/Grain 36 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, 2021, 2020. 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.