Lawn Care · Virginia

5402 - Ashland

Ashland, VA · ~32 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5402 - Ashland runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade D.

5402 - Ashland: 6.0 TCR = 134% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5402 - Ashland safety composite

5402 - Ashland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−2.4

2017→2024

5402 - Ashland injury rate improved

5402 - Ashland's TCR fell 2.4 from 6.4 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.4 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=11.7 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 134% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #70/86
  • PHOTO 274202
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 274202 (0.0 TCR gap)

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5402 - Ashland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5402 - Ashland averages 6.0 TCR (134% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5402 - Ashland TCR series: 2017=6.4 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=11.7 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.5

Where 5402 - Ashland falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #70 safest of 86 Lawn Care employers in Virginia.

5402 - Ashland (32 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 5402 - Ashland
5402 - Ashland (32 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5402 - Ashland 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 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2023 7.5 7.5 2 0 0
2022 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2021 11.7 11.7 3 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2019 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2018 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2017 6.4 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · VA · Ashland

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 134 employers in Ashland, 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 274202 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 277101 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5435 - Cyfair 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boise Branch 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ayrshire Farm Management, LC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE BIRDSONG CORPORATION-FRANKLIN/SOUTHAMPTON 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : Southampton 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christiansburg Svc Ctr 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : RIC5 1,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RIC5 1,077 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1730 RNDC-ASHLAND 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4609-1730 468 FTE
NAT-TCR Mill Brook Houses 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wald Houses 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaver Lake Education Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Belkorp Ag - Modesto 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5300 - Salt Lake City 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5785 - Ann Arbor 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5792 - Colorado Springs 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blackhawk Transport James Hardie Florida 32 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, 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.