Lawn Care · Illinois

5545 - Lake Forest

Lake Forest, IL · ~52 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5545 - Lake Forest runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade D.

5545 - Lake Forest: 7.8 TCR = 174% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5545 - Lake Forest safety composite

5545 - Lake Forest scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

5545 - Lake Forest: 8.1 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2024

5545 - Lake Forest's TCR rose 2.1 from 8.1 in 2017 to 10.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Lake Forest, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #98/133
  • PHOTO 5900 - New Jersey Mo…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5900 - New Jersey Morris (0.0 TCR gap)

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5545 - Lake Forest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5545 - Lake Forest averages 7.8 TCR (174% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5545 - Lake Forest TCR series: 2017=8.1 · 2018=5.6 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=13.9 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 4.5

Where 5545 - Lake Forest falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #98 safest of 133 Lawn Care employers in Illinois.

5545 - Lake Forest (52 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 5545 - Lake Forest
5545 - Lake Forest (52 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5545 - Lake Forest 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 10.2 10.2 4 0 0
2023 7.7 7.7 3 0 0
2022 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2021 13.9 13.9 7 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2018 5.6 5.6 2 1 0
2017 8.1 8.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IL · Lake Forest

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Lake Forest, IL · 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 5900 - New Jersey Morris 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tree Tech Tree Service, Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caretaker, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 145020 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curative Health Cultivation LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2502-Ashton, IL (Monsanto Co.) 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sauget 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1240-Monmouth, IL (Monsanto Co.) 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR US - Corporate : 0G01 2,455 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0G01 - CORP LAKE FOREST, IL 2,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL 1,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0G11 - CORP LAKE FOREST, IL 1,044 FTE
NAT-TCR 5900 - New Jersey Morris 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Momentum WORK, Inc. (Main) 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction Products Inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bob Utter Ford 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5530 - Greensboro 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5460 - Greenville 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5057 - Lewisville 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Borgers USA Inc 52 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, 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.