Arborist services · Pennsylvania

John B. Ward & Company Inc

King of Prussia, PA · ~67 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John B. Ward & Company Inc runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade D.

John B. Ward & Company Inc: 6.5 TCR = 144% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John B. Ward & Company Inc safety composite

John B. Ward & Company Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.55 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

−7.9

2021→2023

John B. Ward & Company Inc injury rate improved

John B. Ward & Company Inc's TCR fell 7.9 from 10.4 in 2021 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.4 · 2023=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · King of Prussia, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 144% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #69/122
  • PHOTO Opterra Solutions In…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Opterra Solutions Inc. 08 West Atlanta (0.0 TCR gap)

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John B. Ward & Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John B. Ward & Company Inc averages 6.5 TCR (144% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

John B. Ward & Company Inc TCR series: 2021=10.4 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where John B. Ward & Company Inc falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 122 Arborist services employers in Pennsylvania.

John B. Ward & Company Inc (67 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 John B. Ward & Company Inc
John B. Ward & Company Inc (67 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

John B. Ward & Company 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
2023 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2021 10.4 8.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · PA · King of Prussia

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 183 employers in King of Prussia, PA · 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 Opterra Solutions Inc. 08 West Atlanta 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Branch Nursery Inc 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4405_18972 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suburban Landscape Management 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Metzler Forest Products LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE MC OpCo, LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seward Operating, LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Utilities Lancaster 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR 199897 9,243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Valley Forge (1029) 2,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSL Behring, King of Prussia 1,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DPH2 1,109 FTE
NAT-TCR Braun Northwest, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR H&S Plumbing 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wolfe & Associates, Property Services 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR JC Shoemyer, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sherwood Village Assisted Living and Memory Care 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raley's 901- Far West 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blackhawk Country Club 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Lowry 67 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: 2023, 2021. 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.