Garden centers · California

Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto

Palo Alto, CA · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade D.

Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto: 5.3 TCR = 155% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto safety composite

Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto held a steady TCR band

Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.1 in 2017 to 5.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.1 · 2019=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Palo Alto, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 155% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #24/75
  • PHOTO Urban Tree Farm Nurs…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Urban Tree Farm Nursery, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto averages 5.3 TCR (155% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2019=5.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto (36 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto
Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto (36 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Summerwinds Nursery - Palo Alto has fewer 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 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2017 5.1 5.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Palo Alto

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Palo Alto, 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 Urban Tree Farm Nursery, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-121-Morgantown (RK-121) 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Producers Cooperative Association-Store 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canoga Park Store 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanford Health Care 16,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Palo Alto-Deer Creek-Office 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Varian, Palo Alto 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
NAT-TCR Max & Erma's Maumee 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 018 ABC Supply Co., Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Seneca Foods Ripon 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Clearwater Valley Hospital & Clinics 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Akron Family Dental / West Chester Dentistry 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 821 - Las Vegas South 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 785 - Bluffton 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 739 - San Antonio 36 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, 2017. 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.