Lawn Care Services · Massachusetts

5287 - South Dennis

South Dennis, MA · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5287 - South Dennis runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care Services workplace, earning a grade D.

5287 - South Dennis: 6.3 TCR = 140% of Lawn Care Services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5287 - South Dennis safety composite

5287 - South Dennis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−4.2

2017→2020

5287 - South Dennis injury rate improved

5287 - South Dennis's TCR fell 4.2 from 9.4 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.4 · 2018=4.2 · 2020=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · South Dennis, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 140% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #34/58
  • PHOTO Bluegrass Lawncare o…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bluegrass Lawncare of St. Louis (0.0 TCR gap)

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5287 - South Dennis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5287 - South Dennis averages 6.3 TCR (140% of the Lawn Care Services BLS benchmark).

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

5287 - South Dennis TCR series: 2017=9.4 · 2018=4.2 · 2020=5.2 · BLS 4.5

Where 5287 - South Dennis falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care Services establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #34 safest of 58 Lawn Care Services employers in Massachusetts.

5287 - South Dennis (23 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 5287 - South Dennis
5287 - South Dennis (23 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5287 - South Dennis 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
2020 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2018 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2017 9.4 9.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MA · South Dennis

2,875 Lawn Care Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 12 employers in South Dennis, 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 Bluegrass Lawncare of St. Louis 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5870 - Boston West 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cold Creek Nurseries 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SANDY POND-MA44 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH ANDOVER-HAVERHILL-MA29 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 956-NiSource-Wrentham MA 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrated Builders, Inc. 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visiting Nurse Assn of Cape Cod, Inc 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid-Cape Home Centers - South Dennis 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR 198 - Cape Cod, Ma 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR MCHC - SOUTH DENNIS 158 FTE
NAT-TCR IFCO Transport 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerald Pointe Health & Rehabilitation 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The ServiCenter, Inc. dba Valair Aviation 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ncmilt-Opi-Charlotte-Milton Road 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE McDonald's 14579 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard - Lakeland 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn & Suites - Panama City Beach/Pier Park Area 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taddiken Tree Company 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: 2020, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.