Landscape installation services · New Jersey

Downes Forest Products LLC

Hawthorne, NJ · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Downes Forest Products LLC runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Landscape installation services workplace, earning a grade A.

Downes Forest Products LLC: 1.2 TCR = 26% of Landscape installation services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Downes Forest Products LLC safety composite

Downes Forest Products LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

Downes Forest Products LLC held a steady TCR band

Downes Forest Products LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Hawthorne, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/55
  • PHOTO 177001
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 177001 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Downes Forest Products LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Downes Forest Products LLC averages 1.2 TCR (26% of the Landscape installation services BLS benchmark).

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

Downes Forest Products LLC TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Downes Forest Products LLC falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape installation service establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 55 Landscape installation service employers in New Jersey.

Downes Forest Products LLC (26 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 Downes Forest Products LLC
Downes Forest Products LLC (26 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Downes Forest Products LLC has fewer employees than the Landscape installation 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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · NJ · Hawthorne

2,875 Landscape installation services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 24 employers in Hawthorne, NJ · 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 177001 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Almstead Tree & Shrub Care Company - New Rochelle, NY 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sylmar Yard 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ready to Haul, LLC 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Diversified Group, Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kiely Pipeline Integrity 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockborn Trucking & Excavation, Inc 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Marine Co.DE, LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premio Foods Inc - Hawthorne 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Churchill Living LLC 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hawthorne 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fisk Alloy Wire 116 FTE
NAT-TCR Logixster LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Mechanical Group 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NGDS-E579 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 105-NEEDVILLE 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Motorcoach Services Inc 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kauai Beach 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Galena 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colorado Brake & Supply 26 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, 2021, 2020. 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.