Lawn Care · Maryland

5729 - DC North

Gaithersburg, MD · ~77 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5729 - DC North runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade D.

5729 - DC North: 6.3 TCR = 139% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5729 - DC North safety composite

5729 - DC North scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

5729 - DC North: 4.2 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

5729 - DC North's TCR rose 2.2 from 4.2 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Gaithersburg, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 139% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #41/59
  • PHOTO Thompson + Hanson Ho…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thompson + Hanson Houston Landscape Architecture (0.0 TCR gap)

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5729 - DC North in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5729 - DC North averages 6.3 TCR (139% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5729 - DC North TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2018=5.3 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=9.5 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 4.5

Where 5729 - DC North falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 59 Lawn Care employers in Maryland.

5729 - DC North (77 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 5729 - DC North
5729 - DC North (77 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5729 - DC North has more 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 6.4 4.8 4 0 0
2023 9.5 9.5 6 0 0
2022 5.8 4.4 4 0 0
2018 5.3 2.6 4 0 0
2017 4.2 4.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MD · Gaithersburg

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 202 employers in Gaithersburg, MD · 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 Thompson + Hanson Houston Landscape Architecture 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coastal Greenery, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NJ - Hackettstown 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ultimate Innovations, Inc. 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bradshaw Construction Corporation 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Home Services, LLC 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE VBS - DCX 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlas Foundations of Washington LLC 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Gaithersburg Campus 4,117 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG HUB 794 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist Healthcare Support Center to SGMC 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG-PACKAGE CENTER 759 FTE
NAT-TCR Cathedral Village 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wisconsin 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Buyers Products Company 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wellbridge of Fenton 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corpdc-B5510-Memphis Dc 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson County 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE CS Ava 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0782 Coral Springs 77 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, 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.