Lawn Care Services · Massachusetts

5283 - Andover

Andover, MA · ~31 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5283 - Andover runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care Services workplace, earning a grade F.

5283 - Andover: 9.9 TCR = 219% of Lawn Care Services BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5283 - Andover safety composite

5283 - Andover scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−6.1

2017→2023

5283 - Andover injury rate improved

5283 - Andover's TCR fell 6.1 from 9.8 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 21.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.8 · 2018=21.4 · 2020=19.7 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Andover, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 219% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #48/58
  • PHOTO Merchants Force, Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Merchants Force, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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5283 - Andover in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5283 - Andover averages 9.9 TCR (219% of the Lawn Care Services BLS benchmark).

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

5283 - Andover TCR series: 2017=9.8 · 2018=21.4 · 2020=19.7 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 5283 - Andover falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care Services establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 58 Lawn Care Services employers in Massachusetts.

5283 - Andover (31 employees, TCR 9.9) 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 5283 - Andover
5283 - Andover (31 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5283 - Andover has fewer employees than the Lawn Care Services 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
2023 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2020 19.7 19.7 6 0 0
2018 21.4 12.3 7 0 0
2017 9.8 9.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MA · Andover

2,875 Lawn Care Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 78 employers in Andover, MA · 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 Merchants Force, Inc. 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5640 - Minnetonka 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 131731 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5338 - Spokane 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MILLBURY LEARNING CENTER-MA22 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE One Tech Circle 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raffles Unit 28C 40 Trinity Place 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Biotech Builders Group 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philips NAM Field Sales & Service 4,812 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Andover_MA 4,577 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philips Healthcare 2,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer, Inc. 2,276 FTE
NAT-TCR Prairie Farms Dairy Fort Wayne 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Alloys of Kentucky, LLC. 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Ridge of Decatur 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Angelus Block Gardena 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit #0656 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2144 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Con-Tech Building Components- Troy 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2741 31 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.