Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) · Massachusetts

Weed Man Springfield

Springfield, MA · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Weed Man Springfield runs at 336% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) workplace, earning a grade F.

Weed Man Springfield: 15.1 TCR = 336% of Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Weed Man Springfield safety composite

Weed Man Springfield scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

−11.1

2022→2024

Weed Man Springfield injury rate improved

Weed Man Springfield's TCR fell 11.1 from 23.1 in 2022 to 12.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 23.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=23.1 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=12.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Springfield, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.1 · 336% of ind

  • DART 12.1 DART
  • RANK #54/58
  • PHOTO Cemetery PW
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cemetery PW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Weed Man Springfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Weed Man Springfield averages 15.1 TCR (336% of the Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) BLS benchmark).

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

Weed Man Springfield TCR series: 2022=23.1 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=12.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Weed Man Springfield falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn care services (e.g., fert establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 58 Lawn care services (e.g., fert employers in Massachusetts.

Weed Man Springfield (45 employees, TCR 15.1) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Weed Man Springfield
Weed Man Springfield (45 employees, TCR 15.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Weed Man Springfield has fewer employees than the Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, m 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 12.1 12.1 5 0 0
2023 10.2 5.1 3 1 0
2022 23.1 20.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MA · Springfield

2,875 Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 215 employers in Springfield, MA · 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 Cemetery PW 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5401 - West Jordan 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NatureWorks Landscape Services 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WCA Stockton 15.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Resinate, Inc. - Douglas 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canal Generating LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTHAMPTON-MA32 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE WILMINGTON-MA57 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMC - Baystate Medical Center 8,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMP - Baystate Medical Practices 1,977 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Tarp Redevelopment, LLC d/b/a MGM Springfield 1,867 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMF - Baystate Medical Practices 1,746 FTE
NAT-TCR Sutphen East Corp 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Greeneville Community Hosp E 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DASH Heating & Cooling 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Police Main Station 15.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fire Power Systems 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5113 - IA Polk County Jail 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Efp, LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Run Medical Center 45 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.