Architects' offices, landscape · California

Critical Environments Inc

Costa Mesa, CA · ~67 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.7
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Critical Environments Inc runs at 3134% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Architects' offices, landscape workplace, earning a grade F.

Critical Environments Inc: 15.7 TCR = 3134% of Architects' offices, landscape BLS 0.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Critical Environments Inc safety composite

Critical Environments Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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 15.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−14.9

2017→2021

Critical Environments Inc injury rate improved

Critical Environments Inc's TCR fell 14.9 from 29.0 in 2017 to 14.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 29.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=29.0 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=14.6 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=14.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541320 · Costa Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 3134% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO LMI LANDSCAPES - AUS…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LMI LANDSCAPES - AUSTIN (0.6 TCR gap)

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Critical Environments Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Critical Environments Inc averages 15.7 TCR (3134% of the Architects' offices, landscape BLS benchmark).

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

Critical Environments Inc TCR series: 2017=29 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=14.6 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=14.1 · BLS 0.5

Where Critical Environments Inc falls in its industry

38 Architects' offices, landscape establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Architects' offices, landscape employers in California.

Critical Environments Inc (67 employees, TCR 15.7) among 17 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 5.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 18 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Critical Environments Inc
Critical Environments Inc (67 employees, TCR 15.7) among 17 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Critical Environments Inc has fewer employees than the Architects' offices, landscape median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2021 14.1 11.5 11 0 0
2020 8.3 4.1 4 0 0
2019 14.6 13.1 8 2 0
2018 12.4 8.9 5 2 0
2017 29.0 26.9 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541320 · CA · Costa Mesa

38 Architects' offices, landscape employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 185 employers in Costa Mesa, 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 LMI LANDSCAPES - AUSTIN 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EW Irving 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Earth Works Unlimited of FLorida 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ranscapes Inc 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sonoma GVIC Ranches 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE MUGU RANCH PARTNERSHIP 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Travaille and Phippen, Inc. 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nurseries 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR OC Fair & Event Center 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Costa Mesa 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACWEST Security Services 567 FTE
NAT-TCR Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4765-MOBCIUSPS 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bickford of Quincy 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dollar General (WC USX DIN) 15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Park Place Assisted Living 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Traditions of Wayland 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cherryville Location 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE LGA-SAFS 67 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.