Landscape care and maintenance services · California

O'Connell Landscape Maintenance

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA · ~1,224 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Connell Landscape Maintenance runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

O'Connell Landscape Maintenance: 7.1 TCR = 158% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Connell Landscape Maintenance safety composite

O'Connell Landscape Maintenance 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.2 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.4

2016→2024

O'Connell Landscape Maintenance injury rate improved

O'Connell Landscape Maintenance's TCR fell 6.4 from 13.6 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.6 · 2018=11.7 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=5.1 · 2022=0.1 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Rancho Santa Margarita, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 158% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #272/448
  • PHOTO Shamrock Landscaping
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 517 inj
  • SIZE ~1,224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shamrock Landscaping (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Connell Landscape Maintenance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Connell Landscape Maintenance averages 7.1 TCR (158% 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

O'Connell Landscape Maintenance TCR series: 2016=13.6 · 2018=11.7 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=5.1 · 2022=0.1 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 4.5

Where O'Connell Landscape Maintenance falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #272 safest of 448 Landscape care and maintenance employers in California.

O'Connell Landscape Maintenance (1,224 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate O'Connell Landscape Maintenance
O'Connell Landscape Maintenance (1,224 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

O'Connell Landscape Maintenance 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 7.2 7.2 56 0 0
2023 4.9 4.9 41 0 0
2022 0.1 0.1 46 0 0
2020 5.1 5.1 51 0 0
2019 7.1 7.1 72 6 0
2018 11.7 8.0 118 9 0
2016 13.6 6.2 133 36 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Rancho Santa Margarita

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 32 employers in Rancho Santa Margarita, 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 Shamrock Landscaping 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clearwater Summit Group, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZ Tree Care 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fannin Sales, LLC 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE NGMS-F059 1,224 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Insurance 1,223 FTE
STATE-SIZE double lucky inc 1,221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Applied Medical 4,417 FTE
CITY-NEAR Circle M Contractors 574 FTE
CITY-NEAR Control Components Inc 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR IMI Process Automation 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Pa-Ted Spring Company LLC 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH071 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR River Bend Hospital 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Utica Cutlery Company 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madison Plant 1,224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry Street Plant 1,224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Love Management Company, LLC dba Allegro Management Company 1,224 FTE
NAT-SIZE MGM Springfield 1,224 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.