Arborist services · Minnesota

Carr's Tree Service

Ottertial, MN · ~244 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

Carr's Tree Service runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade D.

Carr's Tree Service: 6.0 TCR = 132% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carr's Tree Service safety composite

Carr's Tree Service scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Carr's Tree Service: 4.6 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2021

Carr's Tree Service's TCR rose 4.9 from 4.6 in 2018 to 9.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Ottertial, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 132% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #30/64
  • PHOTO 5263 - Pompano Beach
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~244 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5263 - Pompano Beach (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carr's Tree Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carr's Tree Service averages 6.0 TCR (132% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Carr's Tree Service TCR series: 2018=4.6 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=9.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Carr's Tree Service falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 64 Arborist services employers in Minnesota.

Carr's Tree Service (244 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 Carr's Tree Service
Carr's Tree Service (244 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Carr's Tree Service 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
2021 9.5 3.2 8 4 0
2020 3.8 0.4 4 6 0
2018 4.6 1.4 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MN · Ottertial

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 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 5263 - Pompano Beach 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Procare Landscape Management Inc 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawn Crew 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago North 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE SPPR Clean Fleet 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE PN9A ST LOUIS PARK 5050 EXCELSIOR 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Village dba Itasca Nursing Home 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Second Harvest Heartland 244 FTE
NAT-TCR CH2O, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin Mechanical 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern-Air Conditioning Co. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R & J Shelby 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Exelon Nuclear Headquarters at Cantera 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZMAC 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Emergency Medical Services 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZAUG 244 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: 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.