Lawn Care · South Carolina

5069 - Charleston

North Charleston, SC · ~23 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5069 - Charleston runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade C.

5069 - Charleston: 5.3 TCR = 118% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5069 - Charleston safety composite

5069 - Charleston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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)
D 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

5069 - Charleston held a steady TCR band

5069 - Charleston's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.7 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.7 · 2018=17.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · North Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 118% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #17/32
  • PHOTO 1004134551
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1004134551 (0.0 TCR gap)

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5069 - Charleston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5069 - Charleston averages 5.3 TCR (118% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5069 - Charleston TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=17.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 5069 - Charleston falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 32 Lawn Care employers in South Carolina.

5069 - Charleston (23 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 5069 - Charleston
5069 - Charleston (23 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5069 - Charleston 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 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2023 9.8 9.8 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 17.9 4.5 3 1 0
2017 4.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · SC · North Charleston

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 256 employers in North Charleston, SC · 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 1004134551 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Plainfield, NJ 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5789 - Grand Haven 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legends Landscaping 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE TRI COUNTY COTTON GROWERS, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hartsville Complex 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marlboro Electric Cooperative, Inc. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE BLYTHEWOOD CREW QUARTERS 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston County 2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Goodwill Services 1,105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trident Medical Center 1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR SRC Charleston ISS Division 815 FTE
NAT-TCR M.S. Ambrogio North America, LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Island Lake Elementary School 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JW Marriott Marco Island 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Phoenix E50 PhxConCntr 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5753 - Peoria 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green View Nursery Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hazel Hills 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blackhawk Transport James Hardie Va 23 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, 2020, 2019, 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.