Garden centers · Ohio

Strader's Garden Centers

Columbus, OH · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Strader's Garden Centers runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade D.

Strader's Garden Centers: 5.0 TCR = 147% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Strader's Garden Centers safety composite

Strader's Garden Centers scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−5.0

2018→2019

Strader's Garden Centers injury rate improved

Strader's Garden Centers's TCR fell 5.0 from 7.5 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.5 · 2019=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 147% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/62
  • PHOTO Oakland Nursery - Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oakland Nursery - Columbus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Strader's Garden Centers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Strader's Garden Centers averages 5.0 TCR (147% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Strader's Garden Centers TCR series: 2018=7.5 · 2019=2.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Strader's Garden Centers falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 62 Garden centers employers in Ohio.

Strader's Garden Centers (52 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Strader's Garden Centers
Strader's Garden Centers (52 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Strader's Garden Centers has more employees than the Garden centers median and a lower 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
2019 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 7.5 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · OH · Columbus

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Oakland Nursery - Columbus 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Donald DC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-103-Pikeville ( RK-103 ) 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stein's Garden & Home Mequon Store 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Massillon 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Home Solar Columbus 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hartwell 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Daimler Group 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Water Country USA 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HI002A 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR La Palma Correctional Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clippers 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brenham TX - Coating 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE 059 ABC Supply Co., Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cactus Feeders 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE PetersenDean Roofing and Solar West Sacramento-Solar 52 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: 2019, 2018. 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.