Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) · California

Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard

Orange, CA · ~240 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) workplace, earning a grade D.

Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard: 6.8 TCR = 152% of Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard safety composite

Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−7.0

2017→2018

Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard injury rate improved

Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard's TCR fell 7.0 from 10.4 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.4 · 2018=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Orange, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 152% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #88/120
  • PHOTO Central Sod Farms, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Sod Farms, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard averages 6.8 TCR (152% of the Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) BLS benchmark).

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

Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard TCR series: 2017=10.4 · 2018=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard falls in its industry

386 Field nurseries (i.e., growing establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 120 Field nurseries (i.e., growing employers in California.

Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard (240 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard
Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard (240 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Village Nurseries Steele Valley Yard has more employees than the Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flower 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2018 3.3 2.2 9 0 0
2017 10.4 1.6 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Orange

386 Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 319 employers in Orange, 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 Central Sod Farms, Inc 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flower World Inc 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR North American Plants, Inc 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belmont Nursery Inc 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CJ Foods Manufacturing Corp. 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super Store Industries - Turlock 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendocino Forest Products 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine Health 6,191 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHOC - CHildren's Hospital of Orange County 4,962 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHOC Children's Orange 3,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHOC Children's Orange V2 3,652 FTE
NAT-TCR Kincaid Ready Mix 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Reman Technologies Volvo Group NA 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SD,VERMILLION - Medical Center Campus - Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando - 095 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frederick (Mdfre) 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE League City (Txlci) 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE GEHC : Westborough MA, LS 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights 240 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.