Arborist services · Wisconsin

Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton)

Grafton, WI · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton) runs at 209% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade F.

Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton): 9.4 TCR = 209% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton) safety composite

Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton): 10.1 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton)'s TCR rose 1.1 from 10.1 in 2018 to 11.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Grafton, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 209% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #59/69
  • PHOTO Carroll Tree Service…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carroll Tree Service, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton) averages 9.4 TCR (209% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton) TCR series: 2018=10.1 · 2019=15.4 · 2020=10.2 · 2022=0 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton) falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 69 Arborist services employers in Wisconsin.

Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton) (26 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton)
Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton) (26 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hoppe Tree Service (Grafton) has fewer 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 11.2 5.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.2 10.2 2 0 0
2019 15.4 15.4 3 0 0
2018 10.1 10.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · WI · Grafton

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 57 employers in Grafton, WI · 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 Carroll Tree Service, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Weisburg Group Inc 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Firestone 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawn Co. 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WORZELLA & SONS, INC. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spring Grove Dairy 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ross Soil Service LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABS 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora Medical Center Grafton 1,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grafton Division 418 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kapco Inc. - Badger 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kapco Metal Stamping 286 FTE
NAT-TCR Spring Mill Health Campus 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LMI, Inc.-Ontario 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Casteel Heating and Cooling - East 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bryan Lumber Remanufacturing, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lutherville Office 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kls Usg Nj 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE meador boys express 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE SC Voc Rehab Sumter 26 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.