Landscaping Services · North Carolina

Arbor Guard NC

Charlotte, NC · ~15 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arbor Guard NC runs at 436% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscaping Services workplace, earning a grade F.

Arbor Guard NC: 19.6 TCR = 436% of Landscaping Services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arbor Guard NC safety composite

Arbor Guard NC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Arbor Guard NC: 14.3 → 25.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 25.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2017

Arbor Guard NC's TCR rose 10.8 from 14.3 in 2016 to 25.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.6 · 436% of ind

  • DART 25.0 DART
  • RANK #74/74
  • PHOTO Rancho Cienega Distr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rancho Cienega District Maint. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Arbor Guard NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arbor Guard NC averages 19.6 TCR (436% of the Landscaping Services BLS benchmark).

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

Arbor Guard NC TCR series: 2016=14.3 · 2017=25 · BLS 4.5

Where Arbor Guard NC falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping Services establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #74 safest of 74 Landscaping Services employers in North Carolina.

Arbor Guard NC (15 employees, TCR 19.6) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Arbor Guard NC
Arbor Guard NC (15 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Arbor Guard NC has fewer employees than the Landscaping 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 25.0 25.0 1 0 0
2016 14.3 14.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · NC · Charlotte

2,875 Landscaping Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Rancho Cienega District Maint. 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3 Seasons Lawn & Landscape 19.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR McAllen 19.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woods Landscape Maintenance 19.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Strickland Farms, Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Camden 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Raleigh 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvey Gin 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Atascadero Christian Home 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Eger Health Care and Rehabilitation Center 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Otterbein Marblehead 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Todd County Care Center, Inc. 19.6 TCR

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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.