Lawn Care Services · Illinois

5749 - Cary-Elgin

Carpentersville, IL · ~67 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5749 - Cary-Elgin runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care Services workplace, earning a grade F.

5749 - Cary-Elgin: 9.1 TCR = 202% of Lawn Care Services BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5749 - Cary-Elgin safety composite

5749 - Cary-Elgin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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 9.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.9

2017→2021

5749 - Cary-Elgin injury rate improved

5749 - Cary-Elgin's TCR fell 6.9 from 15.4 in 2017 to 8.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.4 · 2018=3.2 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Carpentersville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 202% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #111/133
  • PHOTO McDonald PA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McDonald PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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5749 - Cary-Elgin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5749 - Cary-Elgin averages 9.1 TCR (202% of the Lawn Care Services BLS benchmark).

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

5749 - Cary-Elgin TCR series: 2017=15.4 · 2018=3.2 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=8.5 · BLS 4.5

Where 5749 - Cary-Elgin falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care Services establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #111 safest of 133 Lawn Care Services employers in Illinois.

5749 - Cary-Elgin (67 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 5749 - Cary-Elgin
5749 - Cary-Elgin (67 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5749 - Cary-Elgin has more 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
2021 8.5 8.5 5 0 0
2020 9.4 9.4 5 0 0
2018 3.2 1.6 1 1 0
2017 15.4 12.0 6 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IL · Carpentersville

2,875 Lawn Care Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 40 employers in Carpentersville, 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 McDonald PA 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roger's Gardens Landscaping, LP 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LUSA Houston, LLC 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5940 - Charlotte 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur Cogeneration 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE SWECO - Chicago 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Galesburg 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 75G - Western S - IL Gas Ops 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR OTTO Engineering 536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Recreation Services 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1531 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1531 321 FTE
NAT-TCR 350705-Binghamton Po 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Texas 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wisconsin Metal Fab, LLC 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wave Crest Health and Rehabiltiation Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cattlemens Rancho Cordova 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dairy Avenue, LLC 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medart - Arnold 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6016023 - HNL NDWP IIT Mauka Extension 67 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: 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.