Landscaping services (except planning) · Texas

GCS - Harker Heights

Harker Heights, TX · ~12 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GCS - Harker Heights runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscaping services (except planning) workplace, earning a grade D.

GCS - Harker Heights: 6.5 TCR = 146% of Landscaping services (except planning) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GCS - Harker Heights safety composite

GCS - Harker Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

GCS - Harker Heights: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 21.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2023

GCS - Harker Heights's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 21.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Harker Heights, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 146% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #143/187
  • PHOTO Elmsford, NY
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~12 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elmsford, NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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GCS - Harker Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GCS - Harker Heights averages 6.5 TCR (146% 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

GCS - Harker Heights TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=14.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=21.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.9 · BLS 4.5

Where GCS - Harker Heights falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #143 safest of 187 Landscaping services (except p employers in Texas.

GCS - Harker Heights (12 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 GCS - Harker Heights
GCS - Harker Heights (12 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

GCS - Harker Heights has fewer employees than the Landscaping services (except planning) 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
2023 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 21.7 21.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 14.7 14.7 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · TX · Harker Heights

2,875 Landscaping services (except planning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 28 employers in Harker Heights, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Elmsford, NY 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Titan LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signature Landscapes- Reno 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Coast Green Inc 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Producers Co-op Gin Company 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yoakum County Co-op Gin 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gregory Gin 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers 12 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heights Home Health 637 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seton Medical Center Harker Heights 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3319 364 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3319 357 FTE
NAT-TCR Brenneman Pork, LLLP 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Buildings/Waterfront Develop 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR IAC Port Huron 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Blox Group, LLC 6.5 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.