Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings · Maryland

Baker Tree Services

Thurmont, MD · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baker Tree Services runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings workplace, earning a grade F.

Baker Tree Services: 9.0 TCR = 201% of Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baker Tree Services safety composite

Baker Tree Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Baker Tree Services held a steady TCR band

Baker Tree Services's TCR held near 0.2 from 9.2 in 2023 to 8.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.2 · 2024=8.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Thurmont, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 201% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #51/59
  • PHOTO 5775 - Little Rock
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5775 - Little Rock (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baker Tree Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baker Tree Services averages 9.0 TCR (201% of the Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings BLS benchmark).

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

Baker Tree Services TCR series: 2023=9.2 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Baker Tree Services falls in its industry

2,875 Plant and shrub maintenance in establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 59 Plant and shrub maintenance in employers in Maryland.

Baker Tree Services (21 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Baker Tree Services
Baker Tree Services (21 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Baker Tree Services has fewer employees than the Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings 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 8.9 0.0 2 0 0
2023 9.2 9.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MD · Thurmont

2,875 Plant and shrub maintenance in buildings employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 12 employers in Thurmont, MD · 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 5775 - Little Rock 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR C and D Landscape Company 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GP Landscape 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birmingham Branch 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Salisbury Hatchery #2 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1996-Galena, MD (Monsanto Co.) 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mag Spec Chemicals OH 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orsted - Annapolis 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR NVR Building Products (CWT) 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR THURMONT 556 FTE
CITY-NEAR CWT 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR 179 128 FTE
NAT-TCR Soho House Chicago,LLC 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sokol and Company 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2603 Tul68 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterford at College Station 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Industrial Plating Company, Inc 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metzler Timber Transport, LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5 Door Recovery 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trident Steel Corporation 21 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. 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.