Landscape care and maintenance services · Iowa

City of Ames - Parks and Recreation

Ames, IA · ~183 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Ames - Parks and Recreation runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade A.

City of Ames - Parks and Recreation: 1.5 TCR = 33% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Ames - Parks and Recreation safety composite

City of Ames - Parks and Recreation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−1.5

2022→2024

City of Ames - Parks and Recreation injury rate improved

City of Ames - Parks and Recreation's TCR fell 1.5 from 1.5 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.5 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Ames, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/24
  • PHOTO 1004121681
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1004121681 (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Ames - Parks and Recreation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Ames - Parks and Recreation averages 1.5 TCR (33% 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

City of Ames - Parks and Recreation TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=3 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where City of Ames - Parks and Recreation falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 24 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Iowa.

City of Ames - Parks and Recreation (183 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 City of Ames - Parks and Recreation
City of Ames - Parks and Recreation (183 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

City of Ames - Parks and Recreation has more employees than the Landscape care and maintenance services median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IA · Ames

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, IA · 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 1004121681 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Headquarters 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Shore 48370 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rasmussen Lawns & Landscapes Main Office 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE YOUNGLOVE CONSTRUCTION L.L.C. 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reilly Construction Co. Inc. 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seedorff Masonry, Inc. 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Facility 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR PRAM Middletown TE LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Abzena 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Intradeco Apparel 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ultra Incorporated 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE GA517 Rome Lumber 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE West St Paul Mn - 3017 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Center Stamping, Inc. 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheboygan Wi - 3247 183 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.

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