Landscape care and maintenance services · Ohio

M.J. Design Associates, INC

Plain City, OH · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

M.J. Design Associates, INC runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade A.

M.J. Design Associates, INC: 1.2 TCR = 26% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

M.J. Design Associates, INC safety composite

M.J. Design Associates, INC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

M.J. Design Associates, INC held a steady TCR band

M.J. Design Associates, INC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Plain City, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/215
  • PHOTO Total Turf Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Total Turf Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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M.J. Design Associates, INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows M.J. Design Associates, INC averages 1.2 TCR (26% 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

M.J. Design Associates, INC TCR series: 2019=0 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where M.J. Design Associates, INC falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 215 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Ohio.

M.J. Design Associates, INC (28 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 M.J. Design Associates, INC
M.J. Design Associates, INC (28 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

M.J. Design Associates, INC has fewer 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · OH · Plain City

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 47 employers in Plain City, OH · 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 Total Turf Inc 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OH - Findlay 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR APHIX - Lexington 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sajovie Brothers Landscaping, Inc 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE H and M Building 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fine Oak Farm 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Canton Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Small's Sand & Gravel, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZWCO 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMSI, Inc 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Select Sires, Inc - Ohio 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Select Sires Inc 225 FTE
NAT-TCR Suncor Energy, USA 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sears Contract, Inc. - Charlotte 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ag World Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Shaver Lake - Camp Edison 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Noble Trucking LLC. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage House of Portage 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE IfA-Manoa 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peerless Instrument Co., Inc 28 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, 2019. 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.