Arborist services · Illinois

Homer Tree Care, Inc.

Lockport, IL · ~56 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Homer Tree Care, Inc. runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade D.

Homer Tree Care, Inc.: 7.2 TCR = 160% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Homer Tree Care, Inc. safety composite

Homer Tree Care, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.6

2019→2024

Homer Tree Care, Inc. injury rate improved

Homer Tree Care, Inc.'s TCR fell 11.6 from 14.2 in 2019 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=14.2 · 2020=10.7 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=8.7 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Lockport, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #91/133
  • PHOTO BMC LANDSCAPE MANAGE…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BMC LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT 21004 NORDHOFF ST (0.0 TCR gap)

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Homer Tree Care, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Homer Tree Care, Inc. averages 7.2 TCR (160% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Homer Tree Care, Inc. TCR series: 2019=14.2 · 2020=10.7 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=8.7 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Homer Tree Care, Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 133 Arborist services employers in Illinois.

Homer Tree Care, Inc. (56 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Homer Tree Care, Inc.
Homer Tree Care, Inc. (56 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Homer Tree Care, 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
2024 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2022 8.7 3.5 5 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 10.7 0.0 6 0 0
2019 14.2 0.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IL · Lockport

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 59 employers in Lockport, IL · 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 BMC LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT 21004 NORDHOFF ST 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Border TM Ind. Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AHL Paramount 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5401 - West Jordan 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bulk Power Operations 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norris Electric Cooperative 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 73G - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaumburg Reporting Center 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockport Township High School District 205 East Campus 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILLPT - LOCKPORT 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockport Township Park District 382 FTE
NAT-TCR Lancaster Distribution Center 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR United Natural Foods, Inc. Racine WI 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Roe Painting, Inc 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR VTC Enterprises VSFB Commissary 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mount Vernon Flour Mill 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valdosta Refinery 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camp Hill Flour Mill 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHBlacklabs Delivery LLC 56 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. 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.