Landscaping services (except planning) · Texas

MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs

Houston, TX · ~88 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs runs at 515% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscaping services (except planning) workplace, earning a grade F.

MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs: 23.2 TCR = 515% of Landscaping services (except planning) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs safety composite

MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs: 17.5 → 29.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 33.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2024

MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs's TCR rose 12.0 from 17.5 in 2016 to 29.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 33.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.2 · 515% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #187/187
  • PHOTO Springtime Landscape…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 102 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Springtime Landscape & Irrigation (0.0 TCR gap)

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MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs averages 23.2 TCR (515% 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

MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs TCR series: 2016=17.5 · 2018=18.3 · 2019=22.1 · 2020=33.6 · 2022=22.2 · 2023=18.9 · 2024=29.5 · BLS 4.5

Where MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #187 safest of 187 Landscaping services (except p employers in Texas.

MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs (88 employees, TCR 23.2) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs
MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs (88 employees, TCR 23.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

MSN INC DBA McDugald Steele, Stirling Electric, Stirling Irrigation, Waterline Designs has more 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 29.5 6.3 17 11 0
2023 18.9 6.3 11 7 0
2022 22.2 10.7 13 12 0
2020 33.6 4.8 14 14 0
2019 22.1 12.5 16 7 0
2018 18.3 6.7 17 2 0
2016 17.5 11.7 14 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · TX · Houston

2,875 Landscaping services (except planning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 Springtime Landscape & Irrigation 23.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Q-team INC 23.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle Tree Care 23.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith & Enright Landscaping, Inc 23.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE F AND B HOLDINGS LLC DBA LONE STAR CITRUS GROWERS 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puirty Texas 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Falcon Energy Services 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : Sandy Creek 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1059 23.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZBND 23.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Transitions Healthcare Washignton PA LLC 23.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rognes Corp 23.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Dakota State University 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atmore Nursing Center 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Christman Mid-Atlantic Constructors, Inc. - Virginia 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wray Roofing, Inc 88 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.