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

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.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
avg TCR · per 100 workers
4.5
industry benchmark (BLS)
3
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares GCS - Harker Heights's OSHA Total Case Rate of 6.5 to the Landscaping services (except planning) BLS benchmark of 4.5 (146% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

GCS - Harker Heights's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 4.5 industry benchmark.

-50510152025 201620192020202120222023 2.94.5 Industry benchmarkGCS - Harker Heights TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 561730.

Where GCS - Harker Heights falls in its industry

3,112 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #156 safest of 200 Landscaping services (except p employers in Texas.

Trend analysis for GCS - Harker Heights

Between 2016 and 2023, GCS - Harker Heights's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 0.0 to 2.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 7 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2016, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 21.7, a spread of 21.7 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, GCS - Harker Heights recorded 3 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 3 injuries shown on this page for GCS - Harker Heights are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 561730 - Landscaping services (except planning).

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 68,178 hours worked = 2.93 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
GCS - Harker Heights (this establishment) 6.55 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Seasonal property maintenance services (i.e., snow plowing in winter, landscaping during other seasons) industry avg 4.50 BLS IIF, NAICS 561730
Texas state avg (all industries) 3.73 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by GCS - Harker Heights to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

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

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on GCS - Harker Heights's reported OSHA injury record versus its Landscaping services (except planning) peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 146% of the Landscaping services (except planning) benchmark, GCS - Harker Heights reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Landscaping services (except planning) sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is GCS - Harker Heights's safety grade?
GCS - Harker Heights has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.5 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 4.5 for Landscaping services (except planning).
How many injuries has GCS - Harker Heights reported?
GCS - Harker Heights has reported 3 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.