Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging · California

The Scotts Company - Linden

Linden, CA · ~54 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Scotts Company - Linden runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging workplace, earning a grade A.

The Scotts Company - Linden: 1.1 TCR = 34% of Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Scotts Company - Linden safety composite

The Scotts Company - Linden scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

The Scotts Company - Linden: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.29× in 2024

The Scotts Company - Linden's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 2.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Linden, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 34% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #2/14
  • PHOTO OFI Ontelaunee Farms
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OFI Ontelaunee Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Scotts Company - Linden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Scotts Company - Linden averages 1.1 TCR (34% of the Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging BLS benchmark).

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

The Scotts Company - Linden TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=1.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where The Scotts Company - Linden falls in its industry

163 Growing Media Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 14 Growing Media Manufacturing employers in California.

The Scotts Company - Linden (54 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Scotts Company - Linden
The Scotts Company - Linden (54 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Scotts Company - Linden has more employees than the Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · CA · Linden

163 Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 17 employers in Linden, 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 OFI Ontelaunee Farms 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agrium Florence Fertilizer Operation 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Scotts Company - Groveland 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HUMA 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sea Mist Farms 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harold E. Robben, Jr. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Maria Perez 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pauma Valley 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prima Frutta Packing Inc 1,207 FTE
CITY-NEAR PRIMA NOCE PACKING, INC. 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR LINDEN 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR A. SAMBADO & SON INC 87 FTE
NAT-TCR Specialty Process Labs, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hope Hospice 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Marble and Granite, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gibson Technical Services 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Preferred Electrical Contractors, Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derse Pittsburgh 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Chubbuck 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBSI Marshall 54 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, 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.