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

WH Canon, Inc.

Romulus, MI · ~113 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WH Canon, Inc. runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) workplace, earning a grade A.

WH Canon, Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 24% of Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WH Canon, Inc. safety composite

WH Canon, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

WH Canon, Inc. held a steady TCR band

WH Canon, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 0.7 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.7 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Romulus, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #7/91
  • PHOTO Commonwealth Turf En…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Commonwealth Turf Enterprises, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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WH Canon, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WH Canon, Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (24% 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

WH Canon, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0.7 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0.9 · BLS 4.5

Where WH Canon, Inc. falls in its industry

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

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 91 Lawn care services (e.g., fert employers in Michigan.

WH Canon, Inc. (113 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate WH Canon, Inc.
WH Canon, Inc. (113 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

WH Canon, Inc. has more employees than the Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, m 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
2020 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2019 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2017 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MI · Romulus

2,875 Lawn care services (e.g., fertilizing, mowing, seeding, spraying) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 199 employers in Romulus, MI · 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 Commonwealth Turf Enterprises, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5726 - Riverside 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5725 - Riverside 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kinnucan Company 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schaendorf Custom Farming 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&H Plant NRI 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Municipal 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kaltz Excavating 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DTW1 3,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DTW1 3,502 FTE
CITY-NEAR Romulus Powertrain 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Romulus 1,037 FTE
NAT-TCR Modern Machine & Tool Co., Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hatzel & Buehler, Inc. NJ 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 3471 Campus (Corporate, MMF, Richards) 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Applied Metals Technologies 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doubletree by Hilton Deerfield Beach Boca Raton 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE 23N5 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Laurels of Hilliard 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Catonsville Commons 113 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.