Landscape installation services · Ohio

Berns Landscaping

Middletown, OH · ~32 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berns Landscaping runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape installation services workplace, earning a grade D.

Berns Landscaping: 8.9 TCR = 197% of Landscape installation services BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berns Landscaping safety composite

Berns Landscaping scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−2.2

2016→2024

Berns Landscaping injury rate improved

Berns Landscaping's TCR fell 2.2 from 7.7 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.7 · 2017=11.7 · 2018=19.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=16.2 · 2022=16.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Middletown, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 197% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #196/215
  • PHOTO Woodley Lakes Golf
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Woodley Lakes Golf (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berns Landscaping in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berns Landscaping averages 8.9 TCR (197% of the Landscape installation services BLS benchmark).

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

Berns Landscaping TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=11.7 · 2018=19.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=16.2 · 2022=16.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Berns Landscaping falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape installation service establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #196 safest of 215 Landscape installation service employers in Ohio.

Berns Landscaping (32 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 Berns Landscaping
Berns Landscaping (32 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Berns Landscaping has fewer employees than the Landscape installation 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 5.5 5.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 16.2 12.9 5 0 0
2021 16.2 9.7 5 0 0
2020 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 19.1 11.4 5 0 0
2017 11.7 3.9 3 0 0
2016 7.7 3.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · OH · Middletown

2,875 Landscape installation services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 125 employers in Middletown, OH · 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 Woodley Lakes Golf 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR H&M Landscaping Co., Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pasadena 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5495 - Evansville 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Custom Agri Systems - Upper Sandusky 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tiffin Svc Ctr 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delaware Svc Ctr 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Electric, Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp. Middletown Works 2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR AK Steel - Middletown Works 2,288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 870 - EFC1 Monroe, OH 1,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Medical Center 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR Commissary - Karns Quality Foods 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Springs of Richmond 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Schupan Recycling Wyoming 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Forbes 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spirit Lake Branch 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie State Plumbing & Heating Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitchell Graphics 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Shore Surgical Specials 32 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.

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

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