Landscaping services (except planning) · Wisconsin

Vande Hey Company, Inc.

Appleton, WI · ~82 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vande Hey Company, Inc. runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscaping services (except planning) workplace, earning a grade D.

Vande Hey Company, Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 133% of Landscaping services (except planning) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vande Hey Company, Inc. safety composite

Vande Hey Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Vande Hey Company, Inc.: 4.7 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 304.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Vande Hey Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.0 from 4.7 in 2018 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 304.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Appleton, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 133% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #39/69
  • PHOTO Environmental Landsc…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Environmental Landscape Development, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vande Hey Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vande Hey Company, Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (133% of the Landscaping services (except planning) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Vande Hey Company, Inc. TCR series: 2018=4.7 · 2019=304.9 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Vande Hey Company, Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 69 Landscaping services (except p employers in Wisconsin.

Vande Hey Company, Inc. (82 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Vande Hey Company, Inc.
Vande Hey Company, Inc. (82 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Vande Hey Company, Inc. has more employees than the Landscaping services (except planning) 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 7.7 4.4 7 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2022 9.1 1.3 7 0 0
2021 5.8 4.4 3 1 0
2019 304.9 203.3 3 0 0
2018 4.7 3.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · WI · Appleton

2,875 Landscaping services (except planning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 356 employers in Appleton, WI · 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 Environmental Landscape Development, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stefano's Landscaping 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landscapes USA - DFW 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plantscaping, Inc 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Van Der Geest Dairy Cattle, Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Pride Dairy LLC 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ebert Enterprises 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alma 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center Appleton 1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Operations 1,321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fox Valley Technical College (WI) 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR TXH011 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Freese Management LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pinnacle HR Group, LLC - Highland Creek 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Concord's Colonial Inn 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pariseault Builders Inc. 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infrastructure & Asset Management 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1034 - Traverse City 82 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.