Landscape care and maintenance services · Wisconsin

Barnes, Inc.

Madison, WI · ~119 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barnes, Inc. runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.

Barnes, Inc.: 9.7 TCR = 215% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barnes, Inc. safety composite

Barnes, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.7

2016→2024

Barnes, Inc. injury rate improved

Barnes, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.7 from 12.1 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.1 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=13.6 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Madison, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 215% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #60/69
  • PHOTO Tropical Plaza Nurse…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tropical Plaza Nursery, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barnes, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barnes, Inc. averages 9.7 TCR (215% 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

Barnes, Inc. TCR series: 2016=12.1 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=13.6 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Barnes, Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 69 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Wisconsin.

Barnes, Inc. (119 employees, TCR 9.7) 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 Barnes, Inc.
Barnes, Inc. (119 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Barnes, Inc. 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 8.5 5.3 8 0 0
2023 10.6 9.6 9 1 0
2022 5.5 5.5 5 0 0
2021 11.2 11.2 10 0 0
2020 7.6 6.5 7 0 0
2019 13.6 11.5 13 0 0
2018 9.2 8.0 8 0 0
2017 8.7 6.2 5 2 0
2016 12.1 3.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · WI · Madison

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 577 employers in Madison, WI · 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 Tropical Plaza Nursery, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aspen Tree Expert Company Inc 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akehurst Landscape Service Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dunwoody 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Parisi Construction LLC 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northland Electrical Services 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerry - Rothschild 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milk Specialties Global Fond Du Lac 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital - Madison 2,401 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meriter Hospital 2,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR EatStreet 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR TDS - Junction Road (All Employees) 1,302 FTE
NAT-TCR 30687 - Capstone PFS SP Southern California CA 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Anoka 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR KR Miller 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2462 - Simi Valley Tierra Rejada Road 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Acuity Hospital of New Jersey, L.L.C. (d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - Atlantic City) 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE EcoWater Systems LLC 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodland Terrace of Carmel 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4020187 - UCI Irvine Campus Medical Complex 119 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, 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.