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

FWY NexGreen Columbus

Columbus, OH · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FWY NexGreen Columbus runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) workplace, earning a grade A.

FWY NexGreen Columbus: 1.9 TCR = 43% of Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FWY NexGreen Columbus safety composite

FWY NexGreen Columbus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

FWY NexGreen Columbus: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

FWY NexGreen Columbus's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 43% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #54/215
  • PHOTO Sperber Landscape Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sperber Landscape Companies of Kona, LLC. dba The Maintenance Group, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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FWY NexGreen Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FWY NexGreen Columbus averages 1.9 TCR (43% 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 NexGreen Columbus TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 4.5

Where FWY NexGreen Columbus falls in its industry

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

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 215 Lawn care services (e.g., fert employers in Ohio.

FWY NexGreen Columbus (28 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 NexGreen Columbus
FWY NexGreen Columbus (28 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

FWY NexGreen Columbus 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 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · OH · Columbus

2,875 Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Sperber Landscape Companies of Kona, LLC. dba The Maintenance Group, LLC. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Turf Farms 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1004134051 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Lawns Inc 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE H and M Building 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fine Oak Farm 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Canton Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Small's Sand & Gravel, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR The Gateway Co of Missouri, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR JWP Elementary School 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Greece 10194 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson 10205 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coupe Construction Company, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trulieve Orange Park 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stone Lodge 28 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.