Lawn maintenance services · Michigan

City of Detroit - General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division - Southfield Yard

Detroit, MI · ~109 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Detroit - General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division - Southfield Yard runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Detroit - General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division - Southfield Yard: 7.9 TCR = 175% of Lawn maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

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

City of Detroit - General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division - Southfield Yard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−4.5

2017→2019

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

City of Detroit - General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division - Southfield Yard's TCR fell 4.5 from 7.8 in 2017 to 3.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.8 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #69/91
  • PHOTO Bath Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bath Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Detroit - General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division - Southfield Yard 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 - Southfield Yard averages 7.9 TCR (175% of the Lawn maintenance services 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 - Southfield Yard TCR series: 2017=7.8 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=3.4 · BLS 4.5

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

2,875 Lawn maintenance services establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #69 safest of 91 Lawn maintenance services employers in Michigan.

City of Detroit - General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division - Southfield Yard (109 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 City of Detroit - General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division - Southfield Yard
City of Detroit - General Services Department - Grounds Maintenance Division - Southfield Yard (109 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 - Southfield Yard has more employees than the Lawn 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
2019 3.4 2.3 3 0 0
2018 12.4 5.6 11 0 0
2017 7.8 4.5 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MI · Detroit

2,875 Lawn maintenance services 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 Bath Inc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gandola Landscape & Lawn Care 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Villani Landshapers 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hercules 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Van Dyk Farms 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martin 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Multi Drywall & Partition, LLC 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sensient Flavors, LLC 109 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 Lafayette Operations 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Minneapolis Police Department 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR West Marine Store #1294 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Youngstown Pipe and Steel, LLc 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lake Erie Crushers Stadium 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE CS Wholesale Grocers : Mauldin, SC (GMD) 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covington Care Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norbord Jefferson 109 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.