Nursery and garden centers without tree production · Virginia

Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms

Herndon, VA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms runs at 652% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery and garden centers without tree production workplace, earning a grade F.

Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms: 22.2 TCR = 652% of Nursery and garden centers without tree production BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms safety composite

Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 22.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.9

2020→2021

Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms injury rate improved

Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms's TCR fell 8.9 from 26.6 in 2020 to 17.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 26.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=26.6 · 2021=17.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Herndon, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 22.2 · 652% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #32/32
  • PHOTO Sunnyside Gardens
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunnyside Gardens (0.3 TCR gap)

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Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms averages 22.2 TCR (652% of the Nursery and garden centers without tree production BLS benchmark).

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

Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms TCR series: 2020=26.6 · 2021=17.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms falls in its industry

642 Nursery and garden centers wit establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 32 Nursery and garden centers wit employers in Virginia.

Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms (20 employees, TCR 22.2) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms
Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms (20 employees, TCR 22.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms has fewer employees than the Nursery and garden centers without tree median and a higher 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
2021 17.7 8.9 2 0 0
2020 26.6 26.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · VA · Herndon

642 Nursery and garden centers without tree production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 116 employers in Herndon, VA · 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 Sunnyside Gardens 22.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 716 21.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern States Middletown Plant 23.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Richmond Hatchery 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Richmond Growout 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : Gordonsville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gordonsville 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR LANCESOFT INC. 1,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR GT7 1,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyto Athene LLC 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-VIRGINIA.HERNDON 578 FTE
NAT-TCR Pierce Lee Roofing 22.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Crest View Corporation 22.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZEFH 22.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop Pdc Distribution Freetown 22.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE McGriff Oxford Plant 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHOMARAT North America (160 Alliance Bld) 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar - Nixa 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waskom Plant 20 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: 2021, 2020. 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.