Lawn Care Services · Michigan

5787 - Pontiac

Name: 5787 - Pontiac Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Waterford, MI · ~46 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.0
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

5787 - Pontiac runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lawn Care Services workplace, earning a grade C.

5787 - Pontiac: 4.0 TCR = 90% of Lawn Care Services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5787 - Pontiac safety composite

5787 - Pontiac scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers
DART rate: F 8.52 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%).

Rising injury rate

5787 - Pontiac: 4.9 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.11× in 2021

5787 - Pontiac's TCR rose 3.6 from 4.9 in 2017 to 8.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Waterford, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 90% of ind

DART 8.5 DART
RANK #42/91
PHOTO 42120 ELC Sacramento
BOOK 5y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 42120 ELC Sacramento (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows 5787 - Pontiac averages 4.0 TCR (90% of the Lawn Care Services BLS benchmark).

5787 - Pontiac TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.5 · BLS 4.5

Where 5787 - Pontiac falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care Services establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 91 Lawn Care Services employers in Michigan.

5787 - Pontiac (46 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5787 - Pontiac has fewer employees than the Lawn Care Services median and a lower 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
2021	8.5	8.5	3
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	2.3	2.3	1
2018	4.4	2.2	2
2017	4.9	2.5	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MI · Waterford

2,875 Lawn Care Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 51 employers in Waterford, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	42120 ELC Sacramento	SACRAMENTO, CA	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Planterra	WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	5523 - Action Pest - Evansville	EVANSVILLE, IN	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Service	MARION, IA	4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Fresh Solution Farms	WHITE PIGEON	46 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DBA FALKNER FARMS	DECATUR	46 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ROB MAINTENANCE	DEARBORN	46 FTE
STATE-SIZE	EDL Energy	EAST LANSING	46 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Oakland Schools	Waterford	677 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Meijer	Waterford	270 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Meijer 053	Waterford	267 FTE
CITY-NEAR	053 - Waterford	Waterford	261 FTE
NAT-TCR	The BoxMaker, Inc., Kent	Kent, WA	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	4769-749-Pottery Barn	Mashpee, MA	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	1021 - Chesapeake East	Chesapeake, VA	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sodexo at Ft Mcclellan-Misty Dawn	Anniston, AL	4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Grocery Outlet 7710	Marianna, FL	46 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Aurora-Staples Delivery Operations (SDO)	Aurora, CO	46 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Leland House	Leland, NC	46 FTE
NAT-SIZE	J. Walter Miller Company	Lancaster, PA	46 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, 2019, 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.