Arborist services · Vermont

Chippers Inc.

Woodstock, VT · ~76 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chippers Inc. runs at 244% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade F.

Chippers Inc.: 11.0 TCR = 244% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chippers Inc. safety composite

Chippers Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Chippers Inc.: 5.1 → 16.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2020

Chippers Inc.'s TCR rose 11.9 from 5.1 in 2019 to 16.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Woodstock, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 244% of ind

  • DART 11.8 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO 143201
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 143201 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chippers Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chippers Inc. averages 11.0 TCR (244% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Chippers Inc. TCR series: 2019=5.1 · 2020=16.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Chippers Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Arborist services employers in Vermont.

Chippers Inc. (76 employees, TCR 11.0) 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 Chippers Inc.
Chippers Inc. (76 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Chippers Inc. 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
2020 16.9 11.8 7 3 0
2019 5.1 5.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · VT · Woodstock

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 5 employers in Woodstock, VT · 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 143201 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tree Sculpture Group dba Terra Landscape 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bucyrus Ryan Outdoor Living 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cresta Verde Landscape 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kingsbury Companies 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leader Distribution Systems, inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4501 WILLISTON 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE 08409 - Store # 8409 Brandon 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8400-DRC-WOODSTOCK 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmhouse Pottery 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAHHC OHC 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR 158531 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Troy Laminating and Coating Inc. 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellhaven Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Care 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LQ0972 Pueblo 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hillside Senior Living 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hattenbach 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samuel Merritt University (215-SAC) 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA.SAN F.154 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0028 ROCKY MOUNT 76 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.