Nursery stock growing · California

Plug Connection -Vista

Vista, CA · ~141 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plug Connection -Vista runs at 259% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade F.

Plug Connection -Vista: 11.7 TCR = 259% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plug Connection -Vista safety composite

Plug Connection -Vista scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

−3.6

2019→2023

Plug Connection -Vista injury rate improved

Plug Connection -Vista's TCR fell 3.6 from 5.2 in 2019 to 1.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 40.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.2 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=40.6 · 2023=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Vista, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 259% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #110/120
  • PHOTO Sod Farm
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sod Farm (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plug Connection -Vista in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plug Connection -Vista averages 11.7 TCR (259% 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 -Vista TCR series: 2019=5.2 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=40.6 · 2023=1.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Plug Connection -Vista falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #110 safest of 120 Nursery stock growing employers in California.

Plug Connection -Vista (141 employees, TCR 11.7) 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 -Vista
Plug Connection -Vista (141 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Plug Connection -Vista has more employees than the Nursery stock growing 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 1.6 0.0 2 0 0
2022 40.6 20.3 6 0 0
2021 4.4 4.4 6 0 0
2020 6.6 4.7 9 1 0
2019 5.2 4.1 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Vista

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 197 employers in Vista, 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 Sod Farm 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village Nurseries Bradshaw Yard 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR COTTAGE HILL NURSERY, INC. 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Growers Transplanting Inc Nipomo 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE OCEAN VIEW FLOWERS, LLC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE LABOR 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE VESSEY & COMPANY, INC. 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri Pointe Homes Inland Empire 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR 05-CACTUS 1,065 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cactus - 05 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista HQ 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01-CORP 522 FTE
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Waco 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pediatric Health Choice at the Bishop Children's Center 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jersey City - Broadway 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Chinook Roofing 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hilton Jackson 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0285 - Sumner Wa (Wet) Depot 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE BGI Group, Inc. 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0197 141 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, 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.