Arborist services · Michigan

Kappen Tree Service, LLC

Cass City, MI · ~377 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kappen Tree Service, LLC runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade A.

Kappen Tree Service, LLC: 0.8 TCR = 17% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kappen Tree Service, LLC safety composite

Kappen Tree Service, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

Kappen Tree Service, LLC: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2024

Kappen Tree Service, LLC's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2021 to 1.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Cass City, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #4/91
  • PHOTO Emerald Coast
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~377 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emerald Coast (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kappen Tree Service, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kappen Tree Service, LLC averages 0.8 TCR (17% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Kappen Tree Service, LLC TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Kappen Tree Service, LLC falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 91 Arborist services employers in Michigan.

Kappen Tree Service, LLC (377 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 Kappen Tree Service, LLC
Kappen Tree Service, LLC (377 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Kappen Tree Service, LLC has more employees than the Arborist services median and a lower 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 1.4 0.2 4 2 0
2023 0.9 0.2 3 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MI · Cass City

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 16 employers in Cass City, MI · 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 Emerald Coast 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Top Cut Lawn Services 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walnut Creek 31050 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeAngelo Brothers Jacksonville 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Shyft Group 377 FTE
STATE-SIZE YFAI - Frenchtown 1 377 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1542 377 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2010 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Walbro LLC 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Area Energy Center 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR MICSC - CASS CITY CENTER 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medilodge of Cass City 71 FTE
NAT-TCR Philips RIST 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sterling Ethanol 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vault Pressure Control 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fighting Jays Solar 20145001 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hamilton Home Builders 377 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michaels Distribution Center #9 - New Lenox 377 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolfspeed - Marcy, NY 377 FTE
NAT-SIZE Visionworks (Manufacturing and Distribution) 377 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, 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.