Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging · Florida

The Scotts Company - Palmdale

Palmdale, FL · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Scotts Company - Palmdale runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging workplace, earning a grade C.

The Scotts Company - Palmdale: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Scotts Company - Palmdale safety composite

The Scotts Company - Palmdale scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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 - Palmdale: 3.1 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

The Scotts Company - Palmdale's TCR rose 2.3 from 3.1 in 2019 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Palmdale, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #8/15
  • PHOTO Hutto
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hutto (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Scotts Company - Palmdale in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Scotts Company - Palmdale averages 3.7 TCR (112% 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 - Palmdale TCR series: 2019=3.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where The Scotts Company - Palmdale falls in its industry

163 Growing Media Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 15 Growing Media Manufacturing employers in Florida.

The Scotts Company - Palmdale (26 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 - Palmdale
The Scotts Company - Palmdale (26 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Scotts Company - Palmdale has fewer employees than the Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging median and a higher 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 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2023 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · FL · Palmdale

163 Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 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 Hutto 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8338_18980 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oakley Pendleton Warehouse 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Hydroponics 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cooperative Producers, Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherrylake Inc. - VB 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE HAULING 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE J & J Sugar Harvesters Inc 26 FTE
NAT-TCR BMC Seguin 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Boger Dental 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Impact Guard LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Humboldt Bay Inn 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Charlottesville - Facilities Maintenance 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bbs - Schenectady Truss 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milford, Ct 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Lynchburg 26 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. 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.