Landscaping services (except planning) · California

Benchmark Landscape Inc.

Poway, CA · ~145 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Benchmark Landscape Inc. runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscaping services (except planning) workplace, earning a grade F.

Benchmark Landscape Inc.: 11.6 TCR = 257% of Landscaping services (except planning) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benchmark Landscape Inc. safety composite

Benchmark Landscape Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Benchmark Landscape Inc.: 7.4 → 17.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2024

Benchmark Landscape Inc.'s TCR rose 9.8 from 7.4 in 2022 to 17.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Poway, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 257% of ind

  • DART 15.8 DART
  • RANK #365/448
  • PHOTO Steve Hanson Landsca…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steve Hanson Landscaping Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Benchmark Landscape Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Benchmark Landscape Inc. averages 11.6 TCR (257% of the Landscaping services (except planning) BLS benchmark).

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

Benchmark Landscape Inc. TCR series: 2022=7.4 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=17.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Benchmark Landscape Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #365 safest of 448 Landscaping services (except p employers in California.

Benchmark Landscape Inc. (145 employees, TCR 11.6) 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 Benchmark Landscape Inc.
Benchmark Landscape Inc. (145 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Benchmark Landscape Inc. has more employees than the Landscaping services (except planning) 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 17.2 15.8 11 1 0
2023 10.1 7.3 18 0 0
2022 7.4 5.3 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Poway

2,875 Landscaping services (except planning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 143 employers in Poway, CA · 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 Steve Hanson Landscaping Inc 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ambler Industries, LLC 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Landscaping Inc 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marsan & Son Enterprises DBA Carpenter & Costin 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CADY - 02 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE R&T Farm Management, Inc. 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE SANTA ROSA OFFICES 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus 4,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geneal Atomics Facilities and Support Groups 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Poway 889 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics - Poway - A15 661 FTE
NAT-TCR Woodpro Cabinetry 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Merica Delivery Services LLC 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Trulieve Juniper Creek 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4802 - Livonia Truss Plant 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town Manor Rehabilitation and Health Care Center 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE SCH 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Century Packing Corp 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone RV Company - Plant 35 145 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. 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.