Arborist services · Maryland

Blades of Green

Edgewater, MD · ~120 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blades of Green runs at 311% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade F.

Blades of Green: 14.0 TCR = 311% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blades of Green safety composite

Blades of Green scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Blades of Green: 12.9 → 15.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2023

Blades of Green's TCR rose 2.1 from 12.9 in 2022 to 15.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Edgewater, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 311% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #57/59
  • PHOTO Main
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blades of Green in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blades of Green averages 14.0 TCR (311% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Blades of Green TCR series: 2022=12.9 · 2023=15.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Blades of Green falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #57 safest of 59 Arborist services employers in Maryland.

Blades of Green (120 employees, TCR 14.0) 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 Blades of Green
Blades of Green (120 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Blades of Green has more 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
2023 15.1 7.1 17 0 0
2022 12.9 6.5 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MD · Edgewater

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 17 employers in Edgewater, 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 Main 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlanta Branch 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ft Sam Houston 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Estate Landscaping & Lawn Managment, LLC 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith Mechanical, Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kemps Dairy Maid - Frederick 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE CP Direct, Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE EMCO Bladensburg 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR 100308 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR SUPER GIANT LANDOVER 308 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0035-0035-02608 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-SWY 0035 2608 110 FTE
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Lufkin 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Coronado Surgery Center 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottage Street Distribution Center #75 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00567 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100404 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100435 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100503 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100508 120 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. 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.