Landscape installation services · New Jersey

Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service

Name: Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Princeton, NJ · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 14.3
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscape installation services workplace, earning a grade F.

Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service: 14.3 TCR = 317% of Landscape installation services BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service safety composite

Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 14.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers
DART rate: F 12.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service: 12.3 → 24.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 24.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2022

Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service's TCR rose 12.1 from 12.3 in 2019 to 24.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Princeton, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 317% of ind

DART 12.2 DART
RANK #54/55
PHOTO FL - Vero Beach
BOOK 4y book
INJ 16 inj
SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FL - Vero Beach (0.0 TCR gap)

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14.3
FL - Vero Beac

14.3
Franz Witte -

14.3
Bland Landscap

14.2
Austin Branch

14.2

What this shows Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service averages 14.3 TCR (317% of the Landscape installation services BLS benchmark).

Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service TCR series: 2019=12.3 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=10.2 · 2022=24.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape installation service establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 55 Landscape installation service employers in New Jersey.

Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service (43 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Kale's Nursery & Landscape Service has fewer employees than the Landscape installation 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
2022	24.3	12.2	6	0
2021	10.2	0.0	2	1
2020	10.4	6.9	3	0
2019	12.3	9.8	5	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · NJ · Princeton

2,875 Landscape installation services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 99 employers in Princeton, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	FL - Vero Beach	VERO BEACH, FL	14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Franz Witte - McCall, LLC	BOISE, ID	14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bland Landscaping Co Inc. - Charlotte	CHARLOTTE, NC	14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Austin Branch	PFLUGERVILLE, TX	14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Elizabethtown Gas: New Village	STEWARTSVILLE	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	South Jersey Gas: Cumberland	MILLVILLE	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	American Water Operations and Maintenance, LLC City of Camden	CAMDEN	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NJ Division - Freehold	FREEHOLD	43 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bristol Myers Squibb Company US Field Sales PPk	Princeton	2,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. (OAPI)	Princeton	2,094 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Princeton Pike	Princeton	1,963 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EIC - Power	Princeton	1,895 FTE
NAT-TCR	Poudre Valley Air Services LLC	Fort Collins, CO	14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Arbor Oaks Senior Living	Andover, MN	14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	5472-NAI-0032-0032-03192	Orland Park, IL	14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-SWY-0019-0019-01765	Corvallis, OR	14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Lewis Landscaping & Nursery Inc.	Copley, Ohio 44321, OH	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Agile Transportation, Inc.	Stockton, CA	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Priority Infiniti	Chesapeake, VA	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CL Construction, LLC.	Wahoo, NE	43 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.

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