Tree trimming services · California

Buford's Tree, LLC - California

Modesto, CA · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buford's Tree, LLC - California runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tree trimming services workplace, earning a grade C.

Buford's Tree, LLC - California: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Tree trimming services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buford's Tree, LLC - California safety composite

Buford's Tree, LLC - California scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% 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%).

Buford's Tree, LLC - California held a steady TCR band

Buford's Tree, LLC - California's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 0.0 TCR.

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Modesto, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/448
  • PHOTO Baker Landscape Corp
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baker Landscape Corp (0.1 TCR gap)

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Buford's Tree, LLC - California in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buford's Tree, LLC - California averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Tree trimming services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Buford's Tree, LLC - California TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Buford's Tree, LLC - California falls in its industry

2,875 Tree trimming services establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #0 safest of 448 Tree trimming services employers in California.

Buford's Tree, LLC - California (44 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 Buford's Tree, LLC - California
Buford's Tree, LLC - California (44 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Buford's Tree, LLC - California has fewer employees than the Tree trimming services median and a lower 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Modesto

2,875 Tree trimming services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 418 employers in Modesto, 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 Baker Landscape Corp 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 057 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rotolo Consultants Inc 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sequoias Tree Expert LLC 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boudin SF - Metro Pointe 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cabrillo Beach 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oakwood Village 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Mesa, Elmcroft of 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30240) 3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modesto Operations 3,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-930 3,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR 930 DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO 2,759 FTE
NAT-TCR HI-02 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NY-03 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond East 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Port Chester 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Denver Castle Rock 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Mulch Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1144 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 843 44 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: 2020, 2019. 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.