Lawn Care · Illinois

5550 - Park Ridge

Park Ridge, IL · ~48 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

5550 - Park Ridge runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade D.

5550 - Park Ridge: 5.7 TCR = 127% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5550 - Park Ridge safety composite

5550 - Park Ridge scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

5550 - Park Ridge: 4.7 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.75× in 2024

5550 - Park Ridge's TCR rose 11.0 from 4.7 in 2017 to 15.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Park Ridge, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 127% of ind

  • DART 15.7 DART
  • RANK #73/133
  • PHOTO L&C Landscape, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: L&C Landscape, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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5550 - Park Ridge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5550 - Park Ridge averages 5.7 TCR (127% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5550 - Park Ridge TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=4.3 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=15.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 5550 - Park Ridge falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #73 safest of 133 Lawn Care employers in Illinois.

5550 - Park Ridge (48 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 5550 - Park Ridge
5550 - Park Ridge (48 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5550 - Park Ridge 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 15.7 15.7 6 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.5 2.2 3 0 1
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.7 5.8 3 0 0
2018 4.3 2.2 2 0 0
2017 4.7 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IL · Park Ridge

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 35 employers in Park Ridge, 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 L&C Landscape, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parks and Recreation 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5131 - Lima-Findlay 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayton Branch 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Marengo - 04WW 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kirie Water Reclamation Plant 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Focus Development, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Multi-Family - Central (Chicago) 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Lutheran General Hospital 4,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Park Ridge Park District 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR TheKey - IL, Park Ridge (1300 W Higgins Road) 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spark Therapy, LLC 309 FTE
NAT-TCR Waterford 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodside 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aerosafe Global - Sparks, NV 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta Plate 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5613 - Maple Grove 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sequoia Services 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denver VAF 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Singer T&L 48 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.