Landscape care and maintenance services · South Carolina

SC - Charleston

North Charleston, SC · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SC - Charleston runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade C.

SC - Charleston: 4.0 TCR = 89% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SC - Charleston safety composite

SC - Charleston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

SC - Charleston: 3.2 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2024

SC - Charleston's TCR rose 1.6 from 3.2 in 2023 to 4.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · North Charleston, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #14/32
  • PHOTO Earthscapes, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Earthscapes, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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SC - Charleston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SC - Charleston averages 4.0 TCR (89% 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

SC - Charleston TCR series: 2023=3.2 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where SC - Charleston falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 32 Landscape care and maintenance employers in South Carolina.

SC - Charleston (129 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 SC - Charleston
SC - Charleston (129 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

SC - Charleston has more employees than the Landscape care and maintenance services 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 4.8 4.0 6 0 0
2023 3.2 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · SC · North Charleston

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 256 employers in North Charleston, SC · 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 Earthscapes, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 130631 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5754 - Champaign 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thunder Bay Tree Service 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GVL 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE LLC 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guy Roofing 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCI - 209 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston County 2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Goodwill Services 1,105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trident Medical Center 1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR SRC Charleston ISS Division 815 FTE
NAT-TCR LMO 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wiese Sikeston 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR W.R. Meadows of Texas 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DELTA Services, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pella Admin Office/Plant 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Central 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville Support Center 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE BAE Systems Electronic Systems LEX 129 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. 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.