Mowing services (e.g., highway, lawn, road strip) · Michigan

City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division

Detroit, MI · ~165 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division runs at 305% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mowing services (e.g., highway, lawn, road strip) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division: 13.7 TCR = 305% of Mowing services (e.g., highway, lawn, road strip) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division safety composite

City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−12.1

2016→2017

City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division injury rate improved

City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division's TCR fell 12.1 from 19.8 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 19.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.8 · 2017=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.7 · 305% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #83/91
  • PHOTO Griffith Observatory…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~165 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Griffith Observatory Maint (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division averages 13.7 TCR (305% of the Mowing services (e.g., highway, lawn, road strip) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division TCR series: 2016=19.8 · 2017=7.7 · BLS 4.5

Where City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division falls in its industry

2,875 Mowing services (e.g., highway establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #83 safest of 91 Mowing services (e.g., highway employers in Michigan.

City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division (165 employees, TCR 13.7) 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 City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division
City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division (165 employees, TCR 13.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

City of Detroit General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division has more employees than the Mowing services (e.g., highway, lawn, ro 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
2017 7.7 4.1 11 2 0
2016 19.8 18.6 35 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MI · Detroit

2,875 Mowing services (e.g., highway, lawn, road strip) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, MI · 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 Griffith Observatory Maint 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PPM LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS INC 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Digger's Landscaping, Inc 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emerald Isle Landscaping 13.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Detroit, MI HVAC 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRAND RAPIDS MI PLANT 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connor Sports 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE CTUSA-MP 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR PP - Duryea CSC 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Yellow Dot Heating and Air, LLC 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Refuse Division - Pearl City Collection Yard 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Freight Lines Inc- Norfolk 13.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franklin (Tnfra) 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Decatur Hub (Ildec) 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belleville (Ilbel) 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redding Center (Cared) 165 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: 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.