Landscape care and maintenance services · California

South San Diego

San Diego, CA · ~42 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South San Diego runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade C.

South San Diego: 4.3 TCR = 97% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South San Diego safety composite

South San Diego scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

South San Diego: 2.4 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.97× in 2024

South San Diego's TCR rose 10.4 from 2.4 in 2020 to 12.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 97% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #178/448
  • PHOTO Vicente Landscaping
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vicente Landscaping (0.0 TCR gap)

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South San Diego in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South San Diego averages 4.3 TCR (97% 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

South San Diego TCR series: 2020=2.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=12.8 · BLS 4.5

Where South San Diego falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #178 safest of 448 Landscape care and maintenance employers in California.

South San Diego (42 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 South San Diego
South San Diego (42 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

South San Diego has fewer 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 12.8 8.6 6 0 0
2023 4.3 2.1 2 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · San Diego

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, CA · 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 Vicente Landscaping 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alaska Premier Services LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange County Tree 49170 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5602 - Austell 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quad H 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CJJ Farming, Inc 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceano Packing Company LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connell Ranch 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Grand Valley Wood Products, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tyler Corrugated Box Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Rock Hill School District 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR S03045 - Gaithersburg Hauling 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Public Works 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradley Graphic Solutions 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perfect Patterns Appleton 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fergus Falls Workforce Center 42 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.