Landscape care and maintenance services · Texas

TX - Houston Central

Houston, TX · ~184 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TX - Houston Central runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade B.

TX - Houston Central: 3.0 TCR = 67% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TX - Houston Central safety composite

TX - Houston Central scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

TX - Houston Central: 2.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

TX - Houston Central's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.0 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 67% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #78/187
  • PHOTO Pasadena 32120
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pasadena 32120 (0.0 TCR gap)

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TX - Houston Central in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TX - Houston Central averages 3.0 TCR (67% 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

TX - Houston Central TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.5

Where TX - Houston Central falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #78 safest of 187 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Texas.

TX - Houston Central (184 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 TX - Houston Central
TX - Houston Central (184 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

TX - Houston Central 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 4.0 3.0 8 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · TX · Houston

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 Pasadena 32120 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL - Jacksonville 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR XL Landscape Development, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMB180 Seattle 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE ANDERSON PERFORATING SERVICES LLC DBA API PERFORATING 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Texas Gas 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Embrey Development Company 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lithko TX, LLC 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Neelam Construction Corp 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dawn Food Products - Jackson Manufacturing 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Artlow Systems, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando Division 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE McGraw Kokosing, Inc. 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carpentersville 33 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Aurora 35 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altoona 41 184 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.