Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings · Florida

Quality By Design, Inc

Leesburg, FL · ~234 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quality By Design, Inc runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings workplace, earning a grade B.

Quality By Design, Inc: 3.2 TCR = 71% of Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quality By Design, Inc safety composite

Quality By Design, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

Quality By Design, Inc: 2.4 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Quality By Design, Inc's TCR rose 3.5 from 2.4 in 2021 to 5.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Leesburg, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.2 · 71% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #113/274
  • PHOTO H&R Landscaping & Ma…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: H&R Landscaping & Maintenance (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quality By Design, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quality By Design, Inc averages 3.2 TCR (71% of the Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Quality By Design, Inc TCR series: 2021=2.4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Quality By Design, Inc falls in its industry

2,875 Plant and shrub maintenance in establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #113 safest of 274 Plant and shrub maintenance in employers in Florida.

Quality By Design, Inc (234 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Quality By Design, Inc
Quality By Design, Inc (234 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Quality By Design, Inc has more employees than the Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings median and a lower 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 5.9 2.2 16 0 0
2023 2.3 0.4 6 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 5 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · FL · Leesburg

2,875 Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 102 employers in Leesburg, FL · 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 H&R Landscaping & Maintenance 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ruppert Landscape - Richmond South 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 173701 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paff Landscape Inc. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd/PTG Management Co. - Palmetto Location 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harper - Lake Mary 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orlando - MB 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3415 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leesburg Regional Hospital 1,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leesburg Regional Medical Center 1,489 FTE
CITY-NEAR LifeStream Behavioral Center 718 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primoris T&D Services - Leesburg, FL 374 FTE
NAT-TCR Cedarwood Enviromental Services 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri-City United High School 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Undersea Sensor Systems Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ATI Performance Products 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greenwood Healthcare Center 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMC-E Knox 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mine Service Inc. 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tx Cmop 234 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. 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.