Landscape care and maintenance services · Illinois

IL - Chicago City

Chicago, IL · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IL - Chicago City runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

IL - Chicago City: 7.2 TCR = 159% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IL - Chicago City safety composite

IL - Chicago City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−4.3

2023→2024

IL - Chicago City injury rate improved

IL - Chicago City's TCR fell 4.3 from 9.3 in 2023 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.3 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 159% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #90/133
  • PHOTO Native Landscapes Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Native Landscapes Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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IL - Chicago City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IL - Chicago City averages 7.2 TCR (159% of the Landscape care and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

IL - Chicago City TCR series: 2023=9.3 · 2024=5 · BLS 4.5

Where IL - Chicago City falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #90 safest of 133 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Illinois.

IL - Chicago City (59 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 IL - Chicago City
IL - Chicago City (59 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

IL - Chicago City has more employees than the Landscape care and maintenance services 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
2024 5.0 3.7 4 0 0
2023 9.3 3.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IL · Chicago

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Native Landscapes Inc 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emerald Isle Landscaping 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adler Tree Service Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pase Contracting, Inc. 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cornbelt Fire Protection District 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exelon Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Electric Field Meter Services 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0G5 - Gas Tech - Engineering 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Nynas - Nassau 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilton Manors 10073 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulsa 10417 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerald Isle Landscaping 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Batavia 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westside Community Focus 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Of Choice #1 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn 59 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.