Lawn Care Services · Kentucky

5540 - Lexington

Lexington, KY · ~44 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5540 - Lexington runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lawn Care Services workplace, earning a grade C.

5540 - Lexington: 4.8 TCR = 106% of Lawn Care Services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5540 - Lexington safety composite

5540 - Lexington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

5540 - Lexington: 2.5 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.76× in 2022

5540 - Lexington's TCR rose 13.2 from 2.5 in 2017 to 15.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 13.2 DART
  • RANK #15/28
  • PHOTO 5799 - Grand Rapids
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5799 - Grand Rapids (0.0 TCR gap)

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5540 - Lexington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5540 - Lexington averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the Lawn Care Services BLS benchmark).

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

5540 - Lexington TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=0 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=15.8 · BLS 4.5

Where 5540 - Lexington falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care Services establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 28 Lawn Care Services employers in Kentucky.

5540 - Lexington (44 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 5540 - Lexington
5540 - Lexington (44 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5540 - Lexington 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
2022 15.8 13.2 6 0 0
2021 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · KY · Lexington

2,875 Lawn Care Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, KY · 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 5799 - Grand Rapids 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 104384 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DE/PA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Integrated Landscape Management 746 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DMK Development Group 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC630 - Louisville, KY 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE R. J. Corman Signaling Company, LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jett's Specialty Contracting, LLC 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Elmwood Care Centre 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Arnegard, ND Warehouse 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Sandy 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR S03075 - WI Ashland 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arcadia Inc. ASG 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clean Harbors Industrial Services Inc 84YIW 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branch 379 - Shreveport PW610 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE RACO, Inc. 44 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: 2022, 2021, 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.