Tree trimming services · California

Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California

Name: Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Modesto, CA · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tree trimming services workplace, earning a grade A.

Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California: 1.3 TCR = 30% of Tree trimming services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California safety composite

Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2020

Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Modesto, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 30% of ind

DART 2.7 DART
RANK #46/448
PHOTO Sperber Landscape Co…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sperber Landscape Companies, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.3
Sperber Landsc

1.3
Level Green La

1.3
Burford's Tree

1.3
Grayslake Head

1.3

What this shows Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California averages 1.3 TCR (30% of the Tree trimming services BLS benchmark).

Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California falls in its industry

2,875 Tree trimming services establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 448 Tree trimming services employers in California.

Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California (95 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Nelson Tree Service, LLC - California has more employees than the Tree trimming 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
2020	2.7	2.7	1	0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Modesto

2,875 Tree trimming services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 418 employers in Modesto, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Sperber Landscape Companies, LLC	WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Level Green Landscape LLC	UPPER MARLBORO, MD	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Burford's Trees LLC Region 345	ABERDEEN, NC	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Grayslake Headquarters	GRAYSLAKE, IL	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Del Llano Farms	CASTROVILLE	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Los Altos Farms, LLC	AROMAS	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TreeSource	EXETER	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Costa View Farms 2 (Madera)	MADERA	95 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sutter Valley Hospitals (30240)	Modesto	3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Modesto Operations	Modesto	3,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4701-930	Modesto	3,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR	930 DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO	Modesto	2,759 FTE
NAT-TCR	Abilene Motor Express LLC	North Chesterfield, VA	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Flint Hills Resources Peru	Peru, IL	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ross store 736	Viera, FL	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ross store 1331	Phoenix, AZ	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Septagon Construction Company, Incorporated-Sedalia	Sedalia, MO	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chicago Roosevelt Warehouse	Chicago, IL	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Construction	Sidon, MS	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ross store 508	Brownsville, TX	95 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: 2020, 2019. 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.