Landscape care and maintenance services · California

Yard Masters, Inc.

Merced, CA · ~35 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Yard Masters, Inc. runs at 365% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.

Yard Masters, Inc.: 16.4 TCR = 365% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Yard Masters, Inc. safety composite

Yard Masters, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

−20.0

2017→2023

Yard Masters, Inc. injury rate improved

Yard Masters, Inc.'s TCR fell 20.0 from 20.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 38.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=20.0 · 2018=17.5 · 2019=15.9 · 2020=38.1 · 2021=23.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.4 · 365% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #405/448
  • PHOTO District 3 - Section…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: District 3 - Section 3 Maintenance (0.0 TCR gap)

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Yard Masters, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Yard Masters, Inc. averages 16.4 TCR (365% 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

Yard Masters, Inc. TCR series: 2017=20 · 2018=17.5 · 2019=15.9 · 2020=38.1 · 2021=23.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Yard Masters, Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #405 safest of 448 Landscape care and maintenance employers in California.

Yard Masters, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 16.4) 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 Yard Masters, Inc.
Yard Masters, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Yard Masters, 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 23.6 23.6 4 0 0
2020 38.1 19.1 4 2 0
2019 15.9 9.5 5 0 0
2018 17.5 5.0 7 0 0
2017 20.0 10.0 4 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Merced

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, 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 District 3 - Section 3 Maintenance 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RECREATION AND PARKS, SOUTH PARK MAINT DISTRICT 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pro Scapes Inc 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WCA Arizona 16.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Midwest Fabrications, LLC 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Education 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-118-Huntsville ( RK-118 ) 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Weimar 16.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Winco Fireworks International, LLC - Warehouse 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kwik Fill M186/152 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andex Printing 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Badgett Constructors 35 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.