Landscaping services (except planning) · Minnesota

HQ2

Big Lake, MN · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HQ2 runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscaping services (except planning) workplace, earning a grade D.

HQ2: 7.9 TCR = 176% of Landscaping services (except planning) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HQ2 safety composite

HQ2 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

HQ2: 0.0 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2023

HQ2's TCR rose 15.8 from 0.0 in 2021 to 15.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Big Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #43/64
  • PHOTO Boyd's Tree Service
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boyd's Tree Service (0.0 TCR gap)

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HQ2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HQ2 averages 7.9 TCR (176% 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

HQ2 TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=15.8 · BLS 4.5

Where HQ2 falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 64 Landscaping services (except p employers in Minnesota.

HQ2 (25 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 HQ2
HQ2 (25 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

HQ2 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 15.8 5.3 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MN · Big Lake

2,875 Landscaping services (except planning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 31 employers in Big Lake, MN · 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 Boyd's Tree Service 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SS Landscaping Services, Inc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenscapes - South Collier Branch 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoppe Tree Service (West Allis) 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Hutchinson, MN 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Park Rapids Trucking 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN IPH 03-0110-10, 50, 51, 52, 970 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota Limited 849 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2031 Coborn's Big Lake 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premier Marine LLC 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR AES Arconic Big Lake 125 FTE
NAT-TCR Boyd's Tree Service 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Us Autoforce West Branch 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloom at Bossier 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ttg Electric Co., Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE COL 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cats 4U Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ample Electric, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Steel Fabricators 25 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: 2023, 2021. 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.