Landscaping services (except planning) · Arizona

ELS Companies Inc.

Phoenix, AZ · ~357 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ELS Companies Inc. runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Landscaping services (except planning) workplace, earning a grade A.

ELS Companies Inc.: 0.8 TCR = 18% of Landscaping services (except planning) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ELS Companies Inc. safety composite

ELS Companies Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% 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%).

ELS Companies Inc. held a steady TCR band

ELS Companies Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 1.2 in 2019 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.2 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Phoenix, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/55
  • PHOTO Westco Grounds Maint…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~357 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westco Grounds Maintenance, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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ELS Companies Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ELS Companies Inc. averages 0.8 TCR (18% of the Landscaping services (except planning) BLS benchmark).

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

ELS Companies Inc. TCR series: 2019=1.2 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=1 · BLS 4.5

Where ELS Companies Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 55 Landscaping services (except p employers in Arizona.

ELS Companies Inc. (357 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 ELS Companies Inc.
ELS Companies Inc. (357 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

ELS Companies Inc. has more employees than the Landscaping services (except planning) 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 1.0 0.0 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.8 0.0 3 0 0
2021 1.1 0.3 4 0 0
2019 1.2 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · AZ · Phoenix

2,875 Landscaping services (except planning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, AZ · 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 Westco Grounds Maintenance, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange County Central 32080 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haymaker Tree and Lawn Inc 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 34220 North Tampa 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Valley Water Users 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arizona JBH Operation 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2113 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE SimonMed Imaging-Corporate 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR ComSonics IN 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR KIRA Aerospace - NSROC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ya1 Aer - Hauppauge 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 601 Wall Street 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Redwood City 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DDV5 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Experts, 164 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8010150 PGW Tipton 357 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, 2019. 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.