Lawncare · Virginia

5110 - DC West

Sterling, VA · ~78 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5110 - DC West runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawncare workplace, earning a grade D.

5110 - DC West: 6.4 TCR = 143% of Lawncare BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5110 - DC West safety composite

5110 - DC West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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)
D 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

5110 - DC West: 4.0 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2019

5110 - DC West's TCR rose 4.7 from 4.0 in 2017 to 8.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Sterling, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 143% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #72/86
  • PHOTO Alan Horticulture, L…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alan Horticulture, LLC McHenry (0.0 TCR gap)

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5110 - DC West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5110 - DC West averages 6.4 TCR (143% of the Lawncare BLS benchmark).

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

5110 - DC West TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=8.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 5110 - DC West falls in its industry

2,875 Lawncare establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 86 Lawncare employers in Virginia.

5110 - DC West (78 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 5110 - DC West
5110 - DC West (78 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5110 - DC West has more employees than the Lawncare 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
2019 8.7 8.7 6 0 0
2018 6.5 5.2 5 0 0
2017 4.0 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · VA · Sterling

2,875 Lawncare employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 222 employers in Sterling, VA · 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 Alan Horticulture, LLC McHenry 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5310 - Wayne 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stano Landscaping Enterprises 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CD Development LLC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE TIS - VA - Emporia 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Electric Company 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tolley ELectrical Corp 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ostrom Electrical Contracting Inc 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DDC4 868 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Dulles 007 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prospect Waterproofing Company 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2038 421 FTE
NAT-TCR iFLY Portland 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rws Wi Fset R1 Kenosha 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tech Packaging 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0000000301 Public Works-Streets 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crescent Hill Water Treatment Plant 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samuel Strapping Systems 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ngc-Milton Plant 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascade Home Health & Hospice 78 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: 2019, 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.