Lawn Care · Indiana

5485 - Indianapolis West

Indianapolis, IN · ~38 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5485 - Indianapolis West runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade C.

5485 - Indianapolis West: 4.0 TCR = 88% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5485 - Indianapolis West safety composite

5485 - Indianapolis West scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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)
C 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

5485 - Indianapolis West: 5.1 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.91× in 2024

5485 - Indianapolis West's TCR rose 2.5 from 5.1 in 2017 to 7.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Indianapolis, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 88% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #25/50
  • PHOTO Westside
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westside (0.0 TCR gap)

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5485 - Indianapolis West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5485 - Indianapolis West averages 4.0 TCR (88% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5485 - Indianapolis West TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 4.5

Where 5485 - Indianapolis West falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 50 Lawn Care employers in Indiana.

5485 - Indianapolis West (38 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 5485 - Indianapolis West
5485 - Indianapolis West (38 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5485 - Indianapolis West has fewer employees than the Lawn Care median and a lower 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 7.6 7.6 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2021 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2020 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2017 5.1 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IN · Indianapolis

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, IN · 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 Westside 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5798 - Sarasota 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5813 - Austin 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Absolute Outdoor Services Inc. 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenleaf Holdco LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Poultry Services, MPS Egg Farms 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yale Corteva 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marion Svc Ctr Bldg 1 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health, Inc 7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center 6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lilly Technology Center 6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR 5798 - Sarasota 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 5813 - Austin 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Penny Lane Centers Commerce 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal FX Motorsports Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5762 - Melbourne 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5802 - Saginaw 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smith-Midland Corporation (North Carolina) 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kamco Supply - Cranston, RI 38 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.