Landscape care and maintenance services · California

Kitson Landscape Management, Inc.

Goleta, CA · ~111 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Kitson Landscape Management, Inc. runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade A.

Kitson Landscape Management, Inc.: 1.9 TCR = 42% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kitson Landscape Management, Inc. safety composite

Kitson Landscape Management, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Kitson Landscape Management, Inc.: 1.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2023

Kitson Landscape Management, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.8 from 1.0 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Goleta, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #77/448
  • PHOTO Mullin Landscape Ass…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mullin Landscape Associates (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kitson Landscape Management, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kitson Landscape Management, Inc. averages 1.9 TCR (42% 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

Kitson Landscape Management, Inc. TCR series: 2022=1 · 2023=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Kitson Landscape Management, Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 81% 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 #77 safest of 448 Landscape care and maintenance employers in California.

Kitson Landscape Management, Inc. (111 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Kitson Landscape Management, Inc.
Kitson Landscape Management, Inc. (111 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Kitson Landscape Management, Inc. has more employees than the Landscape care and maintenance services 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
2023 2.8 1.9 3 0 1
2022 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Goleta

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 98 employers in Goleta, 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 Mullin Landscape Associates 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMB030 Plantarium 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 36310 Charleston 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR JAMAR INDUSTRIES DBA THE HILLTOP LANDSCAPE 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CNTRL 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peterson Ranch 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE KLEEN HARVEST 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redding Cement 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Goleta_CA_RVS 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teledyne FLIR, Goleta 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Goleta_CA_EW 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apeel Technology, Inc. 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Ryder-EMA Minooka 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Aerotronics Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Anver Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Flaherty & Collins Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colite 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE BT Cromwell 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITW Evercoat 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Isd #308 111 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.