Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) · Michigan

Debest Inc

South Haven, MI · ~37 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Debest Inc runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) workplace, earning a grade C.

Debest Inc: 4.4 TCR = 97% of Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Debest Inc safety composite

Debest Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Debest Inc: 0.4 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Debest Inc's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.4 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · South Haven, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 97% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #47/91
  • PHOTO Bagley Landscape Con…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bagley Landscape Construction Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Debest Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Debest Inc averages 4.4 TCR (97% of the Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) BLS benchmark).

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

Debest Inc TCR series: 2018=0.4 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=8.9 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Debest Inc falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn care services (e.g., fert establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #47 safest of 91 Lawn care services (e.g., fert employers in Michigan.

Debest Inc (37 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Debest Inc
Debest Inc (37 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Debest Inc has fewer employees than the Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, m 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 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2020 8.9 5.9 3 0 1
2019 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2018 0.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MI · South Haven

2,875 Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 30 employers in South Haven, 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 Bagley Landscape Construction Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ontario 32200 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardner Landscaping LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bertog Landscape Company 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Full Circle Dairy 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Plains Dairy 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE East River Genetic Services LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Mountain Hydro 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1540 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson South Haven 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1540 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meijer Store 271 242 FTE
NAT-TCR Bagley Landscape Construction Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR A.M. Logging, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR PCI Construction, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AgLogic Chemical LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rick Scott Construction PC, LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingston 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Robinwood 37 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.