Landscape care and maintenance services · Tennessee
Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC.
Gatlinburg, TN · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 10.8
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC. runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.
Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC.: 10.8 TCR = 241% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC. safety composite
Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).
48/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 10.83 per 100 workers
Safer than 13% of industry peers
- DART rate
- B 0 per 100 workers
Safer than 84% 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
Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC.: 4.3 → 12.8 TCR
Peak year 2023 @ 15.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024
Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC.'s TCR rose 8.5 from 4.3 in 2022 to 12.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 561730 · Gatlinburg, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 241% of ind
- DART 0.0 DART
- RANK #38/40
- PHOTO Complete Property Ma…
- BOOK 3y book
- INJ 8 inj
- SIZE ~41 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Complete Property Maintenance (0.0 TCR gap)
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Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC.
10.8 TCR
- Complete Prope
Complete Property Maintenance
10.8 TCR
- Pizzo & Associ
Pizzo & Associates, LTD
10.8 TCR
- Earthworks, In
Earthworks, Inc Houston
10.8 TCR
- TURFMaster, In
TURFMaster, Inc.
10.8 TCR
What this shows Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC. averages 10.8 TCR (241% of the Landscape care and maintenance services BLS benchmark).
Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC. TCR series: 2022=4.3 · 2023=15.3 · 2024=12.8 · BLS 4.5
Where Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC. falls in its industry
2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishmentsSafer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.
Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 40 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Tennessee.
Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC. 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 | 12.8 | 0.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 15.3 | 0.0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
561730 · TN · Gatlinburg
2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 20 employers in Gatlinburg, TN · 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 | Complete Property Maintenance | 10.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Pizzo & Associates, LTD | 10.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Earthworks, Inc Houston | 10.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | TURFMaster, Inc. | 10.8 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Gallatin Department of Electricity | 41 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Thompson Construction Group Inc BAE Kingsport | 41 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Ronald Franks Construction Company, LLC | 41 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Northwest Contracting Services, Inc. | 41 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Smoky Mountain Resort | 468 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Anakeesta LLC | 462 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | City of Gatlinburg | 345 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Holler | 328 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Cedar Health & Rehabilitation | 10.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Henry Ford West Bloomfield | 10.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Timber Creek Resource - Milwaukee | 10.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | ACLP Oakwood Estate | 10.8 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Burgess and Dudley, Inc | 41 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Gw Snf LLC | 41 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Cochran SNF Operator, LLC | 41 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Phoenix Assisted Care | 41 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.