Tree removal services · Georgia

AKA Tree Removal

Buford, GA · ~49 workers · 3 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

AKA Tree Removal runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tree removal services workplace, earning a grade D.

AKA Tree Removal: 6.0 TCR = 133% of Tree removal services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AKA Tree Removal safety composite

AKA Tree Removal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

AKA Tree Removal: 4.8 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2018

AKA Tree Removal's TCR rose 1.7 from 4.8 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Buford, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 133% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #53/100
  • PHOTO C.P. Landscape Co., …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C.P. Landscape Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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AKA Tree Removal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AKA Tree Removal averages 6.0 TCR (133% of the Tree removal services BLS benchmark).

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

AKA Tree Removal TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where AKA Tree Removal falls in its industry

2,875 Tree removal services establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 100 Tree removal services employers in Georgia.

AKA Tree Removal (49 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 AKA Tree Removal
AKA Tree Removal (49 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

AKA Tree Removal has fewer employees than the Tree removal 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
2018 6.5 6.5 5 0 0
2017 6.6 2.2 3 0 0
2016 4.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · GA · Buford

2,875 Tree removal services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 164 employers in Buford, GA · 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 C.P. Landscape Co., Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 270703 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4004 - TPG/PGS 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chapel Valley Landscape - SOVA 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE IRWIN ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klondike Training Center - 4826 Klondike Rd. Lithonia 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rome Business Office - 800 Broad St. Rome 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norsouth Construction Company of GA, Inc 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tech Systems, Inc 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elringklinger USA, Inc. 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR GAORD - BUFORD CENTER 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Georgia Branch 428 FTE
NAT-TCR 507 ABC Supply Co., Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dartmouth (Madar) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Peru (Ilper) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Genesis Senior Living Aledo 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Village of Elk Rapids 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE AAA Worldwide Transportation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Mansfield LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madison Cs Hotel Group LLC. 49 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.