Garden centers · Texas

The Natural Gardener, Inc

Austin, TX · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Natural Gardener, Inc runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade C.

The Natural Gardener, Inc: 4.0 TCR = 117% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Natural Gardener, Inc safety composite

The Natural Gardener, Inc 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−8.0

2017→2018

The Natural Gardener, Inc injury rate improved

The Natural Gardener, Inc's TCR fell 8.0 from 8.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.0 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 117% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/35
  • PHOTO RK-093-Steubenville …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-093-Steubenville ( RK-093 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Natural Gardener, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Natural Gardener, Inc averages 4.0 TCR (117% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

The Natural Gardener, Inc TCR series: 2017=8 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.4

Where The Natural Gardener, Inc falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 35 Garden centers employers in Texas.

The Natural Gardener, Inc (68 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 The Natural Gardener, Inc
The Natural Gardener, Inc (68 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

The Natural Gardener, Inc 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.0 8.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · TX · Austin

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, TX · 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 RK-093-Steubenville ( RK-093 ) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-082-Ashland ( RK-082 ) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LJ Thalmann Company dba Chalet 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stein's Garden & Home Appleton 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal Maine Foods, inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lon Hill Transmission Service 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Products (Texas NGL) 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1500 W LOOP 340 WACO TX 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR PPR 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Biloxie Service Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Isle Produce, Inc. dba VIP Foodservice 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornell Tech 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Taylor 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flint Group, Lebanon, OH 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-Seal Flemington 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE 14 - Theisen's - Cedar Rapids SW 68 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: 2018, 2017. 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.