Landscape care and maintenance services · California

K & D Landscaping Inc

Watsonville, CA · ~68 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K & D Landscaping Inc runs at 377% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.

K & D Landscaping Inc: 17.0 TCR = 377% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K & D Landscaping Inc safety composite

K & D Landscaping Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

−83.0

2017→2020

K & D Landscaping Inc injury rate improved

K & D Landscaping Inc's TCR fell 83.0 from 100.0 in 2017 to 17.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 500.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=100.0 · 2018=500.0 · 2019=487.2 · 2020=17.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.0 · 377% of ind

  • DART 17.0 DART
  • RANK #408/448
  • PHOTO Moss Landscaping
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Moss Landscaping (0.0 TCR gap)

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K & D Landscaping Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K & D Landscaping Inc averages 17.0 TCR (377% 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

K & D Landscaping Inc TCR series: 2017=100 · 2018=500 · 2019=487.2 · 2020=17 · BLS 4.5

Where K & D Landscaping Inc falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #408 safest of 448 Landscape care and maintenance employers in California.

K & D Landscaping Inc (68 employees, TCR 17.0) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate K & D Landscaping Inc
K & D Landscaping Inc (68 employees, TCR 17.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

K & D Landscaping Inc 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
2020 17.0 17.0 11 3 0
2019 487.2 487.2 4 0 0
2018 500.0 500.0 3 2 0
2017 100.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Watsonville

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, CA · 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 Moss Landscaping 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hazeltine Nurseries, Inc. 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Center District Maintenance 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 138831 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Valley Land Co. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCFFO 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE VinePro Vineyard Management, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knights Grapevine Nursery 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR Westchester Village of Lenexa 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston IAH- RAC 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Honda Anna Engine West (Sidney)** 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR FD/EMS 17.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE National Container Group 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beckett Gas Inc.- Commercial Systems Division 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellington Healthcare 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE BUSE Timber & Sales, Inc. 68 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.