Lawn Care · North Carolina

5045 - Lake Norman

Mooresville, NC · ~45 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5045 - Lake Norman runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade D.

5045 - Lake Norman: 7.0 TCR = 156% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5045 - Lake Norman safety composite

5045 - Lake Norman scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−11.8

2017→2024

5045 - Lake Norman injury rate improved

5045 - Lake Norman's TCR fell 11.8 from 19.1 in 2017 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 19.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=19.1 · 2018=11.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=7.0 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Mooresville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 156% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #47/74
  • PHOTO 5749 - Cary-Elgin
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5749 - Cary-Elgin (0.0 TCR gap)

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5045 - Lake Norman in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5045 - Lake Norman averages 7.0 TCR (156% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5045 - Lake Norman TCR series: 2017=19.1 · 2018=11.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=7 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 4.5

Where 5045 - Lake Norman falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 74 Lawn Care employers in North Carolina.

5045 - Lake Norman (45 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 5045 - Lake Norman
5045 - Lake Norman (45 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5045 - Lake Norman has fewer employees than the Lawn Care median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2023 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2022 7.0 7.0 3 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 11.1 8.9 5 0 0
2017 19.1 19.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · NC · Mooresville

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 161 employers in Mooresville, NC · 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 5749 - Cary-Elgin 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5895 - Wilmington-DE 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heinz Tree Service 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 172309 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Happy Holiday Christmas Trees 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cracon, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE GOMEZ HARVESTING 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewisville Operations Center 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mooresville Graded School District 886 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGK Ceramics USA, Inc. 769 FTE
CITY-NEAR BestCo LLC 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR POWERHOME SOLAR 655 FTE
NAT-TCR 5749 - Cary-Elgin 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoppes at Macon 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Detwiler'S Farm Market Ii, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DNJ2 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5798 - Sarasota 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5820 - White Marsh 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conroe Station 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buteyn-Peterson Construction Co., Inc. 45 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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.