Landscape care and maintenance services · Texas

TX - Houston Southwest

Houston, TX · ~238 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TX - Houston Southwest runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade B.

TX - Houston Southwest: 2.9 TCR = 64% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TX - Houston Southwest safety composite

TX - Houston Southwest scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

TX - Houston Southwest held a steady TCR band

TX - Houston Southwest's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.8 in 2023 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.8 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #77/187
  • PHOTO 5797 - Columbus North
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~238 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5797 - Columbus North (0.0 TCR gap)

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TX - Houston Southwest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TX - Houston Southwest averages 2.9 TCR (64% 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 Southwest TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.5

Where TX - Houston Southwest falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #77 safest of 187 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Texas.

TX - Houston Southwest (238 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Southwest
TX - Houston Southwest (238 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

TX - Houston Southwest 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 3.0 2.6 8 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 7 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 5797 - Columbus North 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birchcrest Tree and Landscape 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City 38340 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seedway - Ft. Meade 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Summit Industrial Construction, LLC 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE JBI Electrical Systems (Fort Worth) 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Worth Plant 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific 238 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 Waldrop Construction, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR XAK 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Smallman Street 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard Sarasota 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dart Container North Aurora 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterville 7 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snapping Shoals EMC - Covington Office 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE VDF Riverview Campus 238 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.