Seasonal property maintenance services (i.e., snow plowing in winter, landscaping during other seasons) · Illinois

Acres Group - Wauconda facility

Wauconda, IL · ~215 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Acres Group - Wauconda facility runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Seasonal property maintenance services (i.e., snow plowing in winter, landscaping during other seasons) workplace, earning a grade D.

Acres Group - Wauconda facility: 5.6 TCR = 124% of Seasonal property maintenance services (i.e., snow plowing in winter, landscaping during other seasons) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Acres Group - Wauconda facility safety composite

Acres Group - Wauconda facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Acres Group - Wauconda facility: 5.3 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2017

Acres Group - Wauconda facility's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.3 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Wauconda, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 124% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #71/133
  • PHOTO Pacific Green Landsc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~215 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Green Landscape, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Acres Group - Wauconda facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Acres Group - Wauconda facility averages 5.6 TCR (124% of the Seasonal property maintenance services (i.e., snow plowing in winter, landscaping during other seasons) BLS benchmark).

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

Acres Group - Wauconda facility TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=5.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Acres Group - Wauconda facility falls in its industry

2,875 Seasonal property maintenance establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #71 safest of 133 Seasonal property maintenance employers in Illinois.

Acres Group - Wauconda facility (215 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 Acres Group - Wauconda facility
Acres Group - Wauconda facility (215 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Acres Group - Wauconda facility has more employees than the Seasonal property maintenance 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
2017 5.9 5.0 12 1 0
2016 5.3 3.1 9 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IL · Wauconda

2,875 Seasonal property maintenance services (i.e., snow plowing in winter, landscaping during other seasons) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 46 employers in Wauconda, 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 Pacific Green Landscape, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilmington 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cepra Landscape LLC - Orlando 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5585 - St Charles 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Swiss Automation, Inc. - Barrington 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE School Health Corporation 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE HODGKINS IL - 3206 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Synergy Flavors, Inc. 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berger Excavating Contractors 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wauconda, IL 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fidelitone - 1260 Wauconda 151 FTE
NAT-TCR Industrial Solutions : IS - SC - Philadelphia, PA, USA 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Winston Salem Building (Ncwin) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - New Bedford Gas 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Columbus/Mount Carmel 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Auburn (Meaub) 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sweet Express, LLC 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodrich Aerostructures 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Husqvarna Plastics 215 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.