Lawn maintenance services · Kentucky

Merkle Lawn Care

Wilder, KY · ~45 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merkle Lawn Care runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Merkle Lawn Care: 8.7 TCR = 192% of Lawn maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merkle Lawn Care safety composite

Merkle Lawn Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Merkle Lawn Care: 4.4 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Merkle Lawn Care's TCR rose 5.5 from 4.4 in 2020 to 9.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Wilder, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 192% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #22/28
  • PHOTO Russell Landscape Fl…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Russell Landscape Florida- Tampa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merkle Lawn Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merkle Lawn Care averages 8.7 TCR (192% of the Lawn maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Merkle Lawn Care TCR series: 2020=4.4 · 2021=11.4 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=10.9 · 2024=9.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Merkle Lawn Care falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn maintenance services establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 28 Lawn maintenance services employers in Kentucky.

Merkle Lawn Care (45 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 Merkle Lawn Care
Merkle Lawn Care (45 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Merkle Lawn Care has fewer employees than the Lawn 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 9.9 5.9 5 0 0
2023 10.9 5.5 4 0 0
2022 6.7 4.5 3 0 0
2021 11.4 9.1 5 0 0
2020 4.4 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · KY · Wilder

2,875 Lawn maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 16 employers in Wilder, KY · 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 Russell Landscape Florida- Tampa 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bob Ray Co., Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5288 - South Dennis 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix East 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE PMI Field 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLAYTON WATKINS CONSTRUCTION CO INC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Kentucky Construction 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Castellini Company LLC 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR WLD 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building Crafts, Inc. (KY Region) 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Andrews Laser Works 105 FTE
NAT-TCR Carry Transit - Decatur, AL 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2276 - Alabaster 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0937 - Santa Rosa South 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0188 - Orange Show 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 00474 Bend Operations Ctr 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 00414 Grants Pass Opns Ctr 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE PMI Iowa LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamilton Masonry, Inc. 45 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.