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

FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne

Fort Wayne, IN · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) workplace, earning a grade D.

FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne: 5.9 TCR = 132% of Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne safety composite

FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2023→2024

FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne injury rate improved

FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.1 in 2023 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.1 · 2024=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Fort Wayne, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 132% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #36/50
  • PHOTO 172004
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 172004 (0.0 TCR gap)

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FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne averages 5.9 TCR (132% 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

FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne TCR series: 2023=6.1 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 4.5

Where FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne falls in its industry

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

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 50 Lawn care services (e.g., fert employers in Indiana.

FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne (23 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne
FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne (23 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

FWY Kapp's Ft Wayne has fewer employees than the Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, m 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
2024 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2023 6.1 6.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IN · Fort Wayne

2,875 Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, IN · 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 172004 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5730 - Virginia Beach 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie's Edge Farming Company 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineywoods Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greensburg 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Adult Detention Center 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lyon County 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 12687 Winona 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FV Clinics-Blaine 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Andover-Haverhill-Ma29 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit Pack Co., Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1st FP Austin, LLC 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.