Lawn Care · Michigan

5790 - Kalamazoo

Portage, MI · ~33 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5790 - Kalamazoo runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade C.

5790 - Kalamazoo: 4.4 TCR = 98% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5790 - Kalamazoo safety composite

5790 - Kalamazoo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

5790 - Kalamazoo: 6.2 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.66× in 2024

5790 - Kalamazoo's TCR rose 1.1 from 6.2 in 2018 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #48/91
  • PHOTO Mill Brothers Landsc…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mill Brothers Landscape & Nursery Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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5790 - Kalamazoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5790 - Kalamazoo averages 4.4 TCR (98% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5790 - Kalamazoo TCR series: 2018=6.2 · 2019=13.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 4.5

Where 5790 - Kalamazoo falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 91 Lawn Care employers in Michigan.

5790 - Kalamazoo (33 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 5790 - Kalamazoo
5790 - Kalamazoo (33 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5790 - Kalamazoo has fewer employees than the Lawn Care 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 7.3 7.3 1 1 0
2023 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 13.6 13.6 4 0 0
2018 6.2 6.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MI · Portage

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 136 employers in Portage, MI · 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 Mill Brothers Landscape & Nursery Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omegascapes 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landscape 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 140507 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE PRH GROUP LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Three Rivers Svc Ctr 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alpena Power Company 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment City of Wyoming 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments - 1941 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Medical 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Polymers, Inc. 1,619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Corporation Shared Services 768 FTE
NAT-TCR Grain Craft MT 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Los Angeles Convention Center (ASM Global) 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspirus Riverview Hospital622 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Manufacturing Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Faciliserv, Inc. IL 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5622 - Alpharetta 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5620 - Wichita 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eagle Creek 33 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.