Christmas tree growing · Washington

KLM Tree Farm

Rochester, WA · ~16 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KLM Tree Farm runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Christmas tree growing workplace, earning a grade F.

KLM Tree Farm: 10.0 TCR = 223% of Christmas tree growing BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KLM Tree Farm safety composite

KLM Tree Farm scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−6.6

2018→2023

KLM Tree Farm injury rate improved

KLM Tree Farm's TCR fell 6.6 from 6.6 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 26.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.6 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=20.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=26.1 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Rochester, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 223% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO Kankakee Nursery Co.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kankakee Nursery Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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KLM Tree Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KLM Tree Farm averages 10.0 TCR (223% of the Christmas tree growing BLS benchmark).

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

KLM Tree Farm TCR series: 2018=6.6 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=20.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=26.1 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where KLM Tree Farm falls in its industry

386 Christmas tree growing establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Christmas tree growing employers in Washington.

KLM Tree Farm (16 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate KLM Tree Farm
KLM Tree Farm (16 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

KLM Tree Farm has fewer employees than the Christmas tree growing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 26.1 26.1 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 20.5 13.7 3 0 0
2019 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2018 6.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · WA · Rochester

386 Christmas tree growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 9 employers in Rochester, WA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Kankakee Nursery Co. 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treesource-Rupert 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perennial Favorites 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-G Sod Farms, Inc. 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DECCO US Post-Harvest Inc. - Yakima 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seattle Pacific Homes 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarkston 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE 102942 - Dalles Dam Fish Ladder Aux Water Supply 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Briarwood Farms 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR 22017 - Rochester 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester Farms, LLC 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modern Machinery - Rochester 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Lackland Surgical Center - EVS 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wiebe Farms, Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Haywood EMC-Combined Districts 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CC Mitchell Supply Company 10.0 TCR

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, 2022, 2021, 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.