Landscape care and maintenance services · California

W.B. Starr, Inc.

Lake Forest, CA · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W.B. Starr, Inc. runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

W.B. Starr, Inc.: 7.8 TCR = 174% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W.B. Starr, Inc. safety composite

W.B. Starr, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.8

2017→2024

W.B. Starr, Inc. injury rate improved

W.B. Starr, Inc.'s TCR fell 10.8 from 12.5 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.5 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Lake Forest, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #294/448
  • PHOTO Seattle, WA
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seattle, WA (0.0 TCR gap)

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W.B. Starr, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W.B. Starr, Inc. averages 7.8 TCR (174% 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

W.B. Starr, Inc. TCR series: 2017=12.5 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 4.5

Where W.B. Starr, Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #294 safest of 448 Landscape care and maintenance employers in California.

W.B. Starr, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 W.B. Starr, Inc.
W.B. Starr, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

W.B. Starr, Inc. has fewer employees than the Landscape care and maintenance services 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 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 9.4 9.4 3 0 0
2022 6.3 3.1 2 0 0
2021 9.4 6.3 2 1 0
2020 9.4 9.4 2 1 0
2019 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2017 12.5 12.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Lake Forest

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 90 employers in Lake Forest, 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 Seattle, WA 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Villani Landshapers Lawn and Landscape Maintenance Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wingren Landscape Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Relentless Land Care 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Panasonic Avionics Corporation 2,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARB, Inc. 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spectrum Brands, Lake Forest 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential, Inc., Lake Forest 594 FTE
NAT-TCR Gerdau Duluth Grinding Ball 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plastic Products Co., Inc. - Greenville 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Visiting Angels of Hanover 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Newington High School 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tyler Corrugated Box Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Houston HQ 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Production Unlimited 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minalex Corporation 36 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, 2019, 2017. 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.