Other Building Material Dealers · California

Santa Cruz CA Garden Center

Santa Cruz, CA · ~28 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Santa Cruz CA Garden Center runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade C.

Santa Cruz CA Garden Center: 2.7 TCR = 81% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Cruz CA Garden Center safety composite

Santa Cruz CA Garden Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Santa Cruz CA Garden Center: 5.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.03× in 2024

Santa Cruz CA Garden Center's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.0 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444180 · Santa Cruz, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 81% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #7/16
  • PHOTO Aberdeen NC Yard
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aberdeen NC Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Santa Cruz CA Garden Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Santa Cruz CA Garden Center averages 2.7 TCR (81% of the Other Building Material Dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Santa Cruz CA Garden Center TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Santa Cruz CA Garden Center falls in its industry

280 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 16 Other Building Material Dealer employers in California.

Santa Cruz CA Garden Center (28 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Santa Cruz CA Garden Center
Santa Cruz CA Garden Center (28 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Santa Cruz CA Garden Center has fewer employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 9.4 9.4 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444180 · CA · Santa Cruz

280 Other Building Material Dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 133 employers in Santa Cruz, 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 Aberdeen NC Yard 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oklahoma City OK Yard (North) 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arlington WA Yard 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln City OR Yard 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davis Ranch L.L.C. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steinbeck Country Produce 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harlan Family Ranch 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE KKG Equipment Company, LLC32 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Cruz 8,081 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030253 1,732 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health Dominican Hospital 1,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030253-253001 DOMINICAN HOSPITAL SANTA CRUZ 1,464 FTE
NAT-TCR Aberdeen NC Yard 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbon Steel & Service Company 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MTG - Gratiot 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Crossroads 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glaz-Tech Boise 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE port everglades terminal 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE macon terminal 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunshine Ace Hardware-Support Office 28 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.