Arborist services · Maryland

Baltimore, MD

Finksburg, MD · ~35 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baltimore, MD runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade D.

Baltimore, MD: 6.3 TCR = 140% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baltimore, MD safety composite

Baltimore, MD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Baltimore, MD: 0.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

Baltimore, MD's TCR rose 5.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 140% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #42/59
  • PHOTO 5613 - Maple Grove
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5613 - Maple Grove (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baltimore, MD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baltimore, MD averages 6.3 TCR (140% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Baltimore, MD TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=14 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=12.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Baltimore, MD falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #42 safest of 59 Arborist services employers in Maryland.

Baltimore, MD (35 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD (35 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Baltimore, MD has fewer employees than the Arborist 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
2024 5.5 3.7 2 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 12.7 9.5 4 0 0
2021 8.5 8.5 3 0 0
2020 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2019 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2018 14.0 10.5 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MD · Finksburg

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 9 employers in Finksburg, 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 5613 - Maple Grove 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holmes Lanscape Company 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5020 - Rochester -MN 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL - Sarasota 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE MaryMed, LLC - Massey 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Region 111 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG MD Ops 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Bath Solutions, LLC 71 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR SEH Excavating, inc 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02193 - STORE # 2193 FINKSBURG 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2193 66 FTE
NAT-TCR First Co. Dallas 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone RV Company - Plant 31 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR WB Services LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Grocery Outlet North Spokane #171 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parkhurst Manufacturing Co., Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cimini & Associates Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wehrung's Macungie 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Findlay OH 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.