Landscaping services (except planning) · Indiana

Small's Garden Center

La Porte, IN · ~23 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Small's Garden Center runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscaping services (except planning) workplace, earning a grade D.

Small's Garden Center: 8.4 TCR = 187% of Landscaping services (except planning) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Small's Garden Center safety composite

Small's Garden Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Small's Garden Center: 0.0 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Small's Garden Center's TCR rose 12.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 12.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · La Porte, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 187% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #44/50
  • PHOTO Portland South
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Portland South (0.0 TCR gap)

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Small's Garden Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Small's Garden Center averages 8.4 TCR (187% of the Landscaping services (except planning) BLS benchmark).

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

Small's Garden Center TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=13.1 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=14.2 · 2022=12.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Small's Garden Center falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 50 Landscaping services (except p employers in Indiana.

Small's Garden Center (23 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Small's Garden Center
Small's Garden Center (23 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Small's Garden Center has fewer employees than the Landscaping services (except planning) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2022 12.6 0.0 2 0 0
2021 14.2 0.0 2 1 0
2020 4.9 4.9 0 1 0
2019 13.1 4.4 3 0 0
2018 5.6 5.6 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IN · La Porte

2,875 Landscaping services (except planning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 45 employers in La Porte, IN · 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 Portland South 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5066 - Brooksville 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landscape Department 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Landscape Contractors, Inc. 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie's Edge Farming Company 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineywoods Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greensburg 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR La Porte Hospital Company LLC 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet - La Porte Castings 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2276 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holsum of Fort Wayne, INc 306 FTE
NAT-TCR Wellsprings of Phoenix LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HG730 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 056360-Redlands Po 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 287183-Stl-Creve Coeur Br 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cosentino Center Anaheim 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cragoe Pest Services, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albuquerque 1500 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Signature Flight Support-OMA244 23 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.