Landscape care and maintenance services · Texas

Austin South

Austin, TX · ~181 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Austin South runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Austin South: 5.9 TCR = 130% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin South safety composite

Austin South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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 5.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Austin South held a steady TCR band

Austin South's TCR held near 0.1 from 9.0 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.0 · 2018=4.0 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=8.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 130% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #136/187
  • PHOTO Orlando North
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Orlando North (0.0 TCR gap)

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Austin South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austin South averages 5.9 TCR (130% of the Landscape care and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Austin South TCR series: 2016=9 · 2018=4 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=0 · 2023=4 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Austin South falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #136 safest of 187 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Texas.

Austin South (181 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 Austin South
Austin South (181 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Austin South has more employees than the Landscape care and 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
2024 8.9 4.5 2 0 0
2023 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 9.2 9.2 1 0 0
2018 4.0 2.9 11 0 0
2016 9.0 2.5 8 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · TX · Austin

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, TX · 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 Orlando North 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR All American Turf Beauty, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leo Jr. Lawn and Irrigation Services, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR KIRA Facilities Maintenance Fort Buchanan 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cherry Crushed Concrete, Inc. 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Houston Jobsites 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE AUSTIN TGS DIV OF 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR Sun Chemical Maumee Mfg. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bova Corp 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Andersons Inc. - Seymour 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR White Sands Construction, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tolleson AZ 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE DERBY 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ingersoll Machine Tools 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Care One at Wilmington 181 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, 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.