Landscape care and maintenance services · Iowa

Parks and Recreation

Ames, IA · ~364 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Parks and Recreation runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Parks and Recreation: 5.7 TCR = 127% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parks and Recreation safety composite

Parks and Recreation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−5.0

2016→2021

Parks and Recreation injury rate improved

Parks and Recreation's TCR fell 5.0 from 8.6 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.6 · 2017=6.1 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 127% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #15/24
  • PHOTO L&C Landscape, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~364 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: L&C Landscape, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Parks and Recreation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Parks and Recreation averages 5.7 TCR (127% 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

Parks and Recreation TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2017=6.1 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=3.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Parks and Recreation falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #15 safest of 24 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Iowa.

Parks and Recreation (364 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Parks and Recreation
Parks and Recreation (364 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Parks and Recreation 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
2021 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2019 8.3 8.3 5 0 0
2017 6.1 1.5 4 0 0
2016 8.6 3.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IA · Ames

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 L&C Landscape, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5550 - Park Ridge 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5131 - Lima-Findlay 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayton Branch 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1528 364 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1496 364 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4256 364 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windsor Windows & Doors 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR AH4R - Cincinnati 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Russell's Tube Forming, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dale Construction Company, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-490) 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gainesville Plant 364 FTE
NAT-SIZE Customer Service - East 364 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0672 - St George Ut Whse 364 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus Medical Center 364 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.