Landscaping services (except planning) · Illinois

Homer Tree Care, Inc.

Lockprot, IL · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Homer Tree Care, Inc. runs at 319% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscaping services (except planning) workplace, earning a grade F.

Homer Tree Care, Inc.: 14.4 TCR = 319% of Landscaping services (except planning) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Homer Tree Care, Inc. safety composite

Homer Tree Care, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−6.1

2017→2018

Homer Tree Care, Inc. injury rate improved

Homer Tree Care, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.1 from 17.4 in 2017 to 11.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 17.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=17.4 · 2018=11.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 319% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #127/133
  • PHOTO Hudson Valley
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hudson Valley (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 14.4 TCR (319% of the Landscaping services (except planning) 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: 2017=17.4 · 2018=11.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Homer Tree Care, Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #127 safest of 133 Landscaping services (except p employers in Illinois.

Homer Tree Care, Inc. (59 employees, TCR 14.4) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Homer Tree Care, Inc.
Homer Tree Care, Inc. (59 employees, TCR 14.4) 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 Landscaping services (except planning) 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
2018 11.3 1.9 6 0 0
2017 17.4 11.6 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IL · Lockprot

2,875 Landscaping services (except planning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois 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 Hudson Valley 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Algin Sutton Maintenance 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pisgah Forest 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mignano Tree Care, Inc 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cornbelt Fire Protection District 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exelon Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Electric Field Meter Services 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0G5 - Gas Tech - Engineering 59 FTE
NAT-TCR Wastequip Taft 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ofa 32 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Xanitos EVS at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Carnes Frames Inc. - Cox Street Location 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas Limousines LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bridge At Farmington 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Venator Materials Corporation, LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Armortech Windows and Doors Clearwater 59 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: 2018, 2017. 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.