Landscape Maintenance · Maryland

Howard 48350

Columbia, MD · ~84 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard 48350 runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Landscape Maintenance workplace, earning a grade A.

Howard 48350: 1.5 TCR = 32% of Landscape Maintenance BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard 48350 safety composite

Howard 48350 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−4.6

2019→2022

Howard 48350 injury rate improved

Howard 48350's TCR fell 4.6 from 4.6 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Columbia, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/59
  • PHOTO Asplundh Tree Expert…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Asplundh Tree Expert Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howard 48350 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard 48350 averages 1.5 TCR (32% of the Landscape Maintenance BLS benchmark).

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

Howard 48350 TCR series: 2019=4.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Howard 48350 falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape Maintenance establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 59 Landscape Maintenance employers in Maryland.

Howard 48350 (84 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Howard 48350
Howard 48350 (84 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Howard 48350 has more employees than the Landscape Maintenance 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.6 1.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MD · Columbia

2,875 Landscape Maintenance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 179 employers in Columbia, MD · 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 Asplundh Tree Expert Company 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landscaping Services 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR James River Grounds Management 716 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Lawnscape 771 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. D. Bean Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Coast Electric, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Hunt Valley MD 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE D39 Baltimore 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard County General Hospital 1,952 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate HQ 712 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring Inc - Columbia 586 FTE
NAT-TCR Ichor Systems - Austin 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR EMS - Cincinnati 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ARDx Pomona 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Univ S Florida-St Petersburg 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 204 Millennium Airport Hotel Buffalo 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Josephs 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bensalem Pa Depot 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transport One LLC 84 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.