Landscape care and maintenance services · Iowa

Park Maintenance Department

Ankeny, IA · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Park Maintenance Department runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Park Maintenance Department: 6.0 TCR = 134% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Park Maintenance Department safety composite

Park Maintenance Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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)
D 6.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Park Maintenance Department: 5.9 → 14.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.61× in 2024

Park Maintenance Department's TCR rose 8.7 from 5.9 in 2020 to 14.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 134% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #17/24
  • PHOTO Goldenstate Landscap…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goldenstate Landscapes Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Park Maintenance Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Park Maintenance Department averages 6.0 TCR (134% 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

Park Maintenance Department TCR series: 2020=5.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=14.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Park Maintenance Department falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 24 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Iowa.

Park Maintenance Department (26 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Park Maintenance Department
Park Maintenance Department (26 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Park Maintenance Department has fewer 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 14.6 9.7 2 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.7 4.9 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.9 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IA · Ankeny

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, IA · 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 Goldenstate Landscapes Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 38680 Birch 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Master's Lawn Care 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crandall & Company, d/b/a JC Grounds Management 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastwood Sow Unit 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4806-Urbandale, IA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBQ Downtown Office 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Goldenstate Landscapes Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Asheville NW 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dalena Farms Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2016 - North Olmsted 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MSN 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Modern Machinery - Boise 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3946 Radiator Works 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&B Piping (West), Inc. 26 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.