Nursery stock growing · Oregon

Van Essen Nursery Company Inc

Name: Van Essen Nursery Company Inc Workplace Safety Data
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Lebanon, OR · ~67 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 7.6
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Van Essen Nursery Company Inc runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade D.

Van Essen Nursery Company Inc: 7.6 TCR = 169% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Essen Nursery Company Inc safety composite

Van Essen Nursery Company Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2017→2020

Van Essen Nursery Company Inc injury rate improved

Van Essen Nursery Company Inc's TCR fell 2.8 from 9.9 in 2017 to 7.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.9 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Lebanon, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 169% of ind

DART 1.8 DART
RANK #38/46
PHOTO King City Nursery
BOOK 4y book
INJ 22 inj
SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: King City Nursery (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Van Essen Nursery Company Inc averages 7.6 TCR (169% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

Van Essen Nursery Company Inc TCR series: 2017=9.9 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=7.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Van Essen Nursery Company Inc falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 46 Nursery stock growing employers in Oregon.

Van Essen Nursery Company Inc (67 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Van Essen Nursery Company Inc has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2020	7.1	1.8	4
2019	2.7	2.7	2
2018	10.7	5.4	8
2017	9.9	9.9	8

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · OR · Lebanon

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 37 employers in Lebanon, OR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	King City Nursery	KING CITY, CA	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	KCK Farms LLC	KCK FARMS LLC /11483 SE AMITY DAYTON HWY/DAYTON, OR	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Treeland TF8	MOORPARK, CA	7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	GNW INC	KALISPELL, MT	7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Cascade Fruit Growers	BROOKS	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lomakatsi Restoration Project	ASHLAND	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Consumers Power, Inc	PHILOMATH	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	EC Company - Central Oregon	REDMOND	67 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2807-1436	Lebanon	678 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lebanon Community Hospital	Lebanon	602 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lebanon Community Schools	Lebanon	535 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1436 LOWE S LEBANON OR RDC	Lebanon	502 FTE
NAT-TCR	Green Bay Office - 149	Green Bay, WI	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Multicoop Del Oeste Inc.	Aguada, PR	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Alpha Aviation Components, Inc.	North Hills, CA	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pettis County Assisted Living LLC.	Sedalia, MO	7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Outpost Natural Foods-Capitol	Milwaukee, WI	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Creve Coeur Manor, LLC	St Louis, MO	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cortona Park	Brentwood, CA	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Enterprise Precast Concrete of Texas	Corsicana, TX	67 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.