Ornamental plant growing · Washington

Watson's Greenhouse

Puyallup, WA · ~63 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watson's Greenhouse runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ornamental plant growing workplace, earning a grade B.

Watson's Greenhouse: 2.3 TCR = 52% of Ornamental plant growing BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watson's Greenhouse safety composite

Watson's Greenhouse scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Watson's Greenhouse: 2.2 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.05× in 2021

Watson's Greenhouse's TCR rose 2.6 from 2.2 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Puyallup, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 52% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Garden State Growers…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garden State Growers LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watson's Greenhouse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watson's Greenhouse averages 2.3 TCR (52% of the Ornamental plant growing BLS benchmark).

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

Watson's Greenhouse TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Watson's Greenhouse falls in its industry

166 Ornamental plant growing establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Ornamental plant growing employers in Washington.

Watson's Greenhouse (63 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Watson's Greenhouse
Watson's Greenhouse (63 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Watson's Greenhouse has more employees than the Ornamental plant growing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2021 4.8 4.8 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · WA · Puyallup

166 Ornamental plant growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 172 employers in Puyallup, WA · 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 Garden State Growers LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shoreline Growers Inc 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Young's Plant Farm, Inc. (Farm 1) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (P & FG) 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE John I Haas Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE George DeRuyter & Sons Dairy 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manke Lumber Company Inc. - Shelton 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE FV American Empress II 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital (Company 15) 2,748 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Hospital 2,622 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA014 1,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR SEFNCO Communications 999 FTE
NAT-TCR Folding Carton Plant 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR North Platte Terminal - DOT 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Entergy Tulane 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan Millwright Services 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Ala - Arizona 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE STL-SAFS 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Decatur ADM Mechanical Fabrication 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belhaven Senior Care 63 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: 2021, 2020, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.