Lawn Care · Florida

5982 - Ocala

Ocala, FL · ~28 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5982 - Ocala runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade D.

5982 - Ocala: 8.0 TCR = 178% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5982 - Ocala safety composite

5982 - Ocala scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

5982 - Ocala: 3.6 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

5982 - Ocala's TCR rose 4.2 from 3.6 in 2017 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Ocala, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #225/274
  • PHOTO Seattle Branch
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seattle Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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5982 - Ocala in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5982 - Ocala averages 8.0 TCR (178% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5982 - Ocala TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=5.7 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=12.9 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 4.5

Where 5982 - Ocala falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #225 safest of 274 Lawn Care employers in Florida.

5982 - Ocala (28 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 5982 - Ocala
5982 - Ocala (28 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5982 - Ocala 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 7.8 7.8 2 0 0
2023 9.8 4.9 2 0 0
2021 12.9 12.9 1 2 0
2020 8.3 0.0 1 1 0
2018 5.7 3.8 2 1 0
2017 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · FL · Ocala

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 391 employers in Ocala, FL · 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 Seattle Branch 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 134631 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hyde park landscaping and tree service 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spencer Outdoor LLC 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rosana 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Webster Nursery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvesting 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ortiz Service Center 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Health Ocala 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Ocala Hospital 2,064 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Ocala 1,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocala Regional Medical Center 1,342 FTE
NAT-TCR Singer M. Tucker 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn Edison 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Metalcraft of Mayville - Beaver Dam 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Excell USA, Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5275 - Greenwood 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid America Energy Services (MAES) 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5155 - Elyria 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5328 - Monroeville 28 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, 2021, 2020, 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.