Landscaping services (except planning) · Pennsylvania

Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc.

Rankin, PA · ~46 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc. runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscaping services (except planning) workplace, earning a grade D.

Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 133% of Landscaping services (except planning) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc. safety composite

Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc.: 8.0 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.6 from 8.0 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Rankin, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 133% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #64/122
  • PHOTO C.P. Landscape Co., …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C.P. Landscape Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (133% 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

Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc. TCR series: 2016=8 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=3 · 2020=3.5 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 122 Landscaping services (except p employers in Pennsylvania.

Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc. (46 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc.
Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc. (46 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Mele Landscape Contractors, Inc. 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
2024 8.6 7.2 6 0 0
2023 4.5 1.5 2 1 0
2020 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2017 8.1 4.1 4 0 0
2016 8.0 2.7 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · PA · Rankin

2,875 Landscaping services (except planning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 4 employers in Rankin, PA · 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 C.P. Landscape Co., Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 270703 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4004 - TPG/PGS 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chapel Valley Landscape - SOVA 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Pride Inc / Bell & Evans Hatchery 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Casing, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Elizabethtown ELI1 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mele & Mele & Sons, Inc. 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR EPIC METALS CORPORATION 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trinity Steel, Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-TCR Heyco Products Corp 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distribution Centers LLC-2901 CHANNAHON RD 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bahr Electric LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Berryville Graphics 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE D & B Machining Incorporated 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flint Hills Area Transportation Agency 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Curry House 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0253 46 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.