Fertilizing lawns · New York

Funk Lawn Care

Tonawanda, NY · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
29.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Funk Lawn Care runs at 645% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fertilizing lawns workplace, earning a grade F.

Funk Lawn Care: 29.0 TCR = 645% of Fertilizing lawns BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Funk Lawn Care safety composite

Funk Lawn Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 29.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Funk Lawn Care: 25.9 → 28.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 32.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2019

Funk Lawn Care's TCR rose 2.2 from 25.9 in 2016 to 28.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 32.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Tonawanda, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 29.0 · 645% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #92/92
  • PHOTO D. Schumacher Landsc…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D. Schumacher Landscaping Inc. - Dennisport (0.1 TCR gap)

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Funk Lawn Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Funk Lawn Care averages 29.0 TCR (645% of the Fertilizing lawns BLS benchmark).

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

Funk Lawn Care TCR series: 2016=25.9 · 2017=32.7 · 2018=29.3 · 2019=28.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Funk Lawn Care falls in its industry

2,875 Fertilizing lawns establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #92 safest of 92 Fertilizing lawns employers in New York.

Funk Lawn Care (23 employees, TCR 29.0) 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Funk Lawn Care
Funk Lawn Care (23 employees, TCR 29.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Funk Lawn Care has fewer employees than the Fertilizing lawns 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 28.1 14.1 4 0 0
2018 29.3 12.5 3 4 0
2017 32.7 21.8 8 1 0
2016 25.9 11.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · NY · Tonawanda

2,875 Fertilizing lawns employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 134 employers in Tonawanda, NY · 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 D. Schumacher Landscaping Inc. - Dennisport 29.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Georgia Right of Way - SSEMC 28.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City-Wide Forestry/Landscape 28.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Landscape Maintenance 30.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Singer Farms LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheland Farms LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE McKnight's River Breeze Farm, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stein Farms LLC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tonawanda Engine Plant 1,623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Praxair Technology Center 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linde Inc. 986 FTE
NAT-TCR Hoffman Senior Living 29.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Saco School 29.0 TCR
NAT-TCR South Windsor Ofc/Whse 29.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Minneapolis Washer and Stamping 29.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oregon 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ramblewood 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE TEXAS 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Wood River Fire Department 23 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, 2016. 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.