Landscape care and maintenance services · California

Mlc-Lake Forest

Lake Forest, CA · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mlc-Lake Forest runs at 260% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.

Mlc-Lake Forest: 11.7 TCR = 260% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mlc-Lake Forest safety composite

Mlc-Lake Forest 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.27 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

Mlc-Lake Forest: 9.9 → 13.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2024

Mlc-Lake Forest's TCR rose 3.6 from 9.9 in 2023 to 13.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Lake Forest, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 260% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #366/448
  • PHOTO Harrison McPhee, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harrison McPhee, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mlc-Lake Forest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mlc-Lake Forest averages 11.7 TCR (260% 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

Mlc-Lake Forest TCR series: 2023=9.9 · 2024=13.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Mlc-Lake Forest falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #366 safest of 448 Landscape care and maintenance employers in California.

Mlc-Lake Forest (90 employees, TCR 11.7) 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 Mlc-Lake Forest
Mlc-Lake Forest (90 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Mlc-Lake Forest has more employees than the Landscape care and 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 13.5 12.3 9 2 0
2023 9.9 7.7 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Lake Forest

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 90 employers in Lake Forest, 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 Harrison McPhee, Inc. 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 138731 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Preservation Tree Services 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BDG Maintenance LLC 11.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Davis West Research Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland America Flowers, LLC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hettinga - California 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE A & R Contracting 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Panasonic Avionics Corporation 2,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARB, Inc. 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spectrum Brands, Lake Forest 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential, Inc., Lake Forest 594 FTE
NAT-TCR Aztem - Tempe 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lanat - Natchitoches 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ingyy - Gary Gateway 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ring-O-Matic 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Isd 581 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE EB Meadows 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Event Rents Denver 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bay Cities Ambulance 90 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. 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.