Arborist services · Illinois

Nelson Tree Service LLC

Frankfort, IL · ~359 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Tree Service LLC runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade A.

Nelson Tree Service LLC: 1.7 TCR = 38% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Tree Service LLC safety composite

Nelson Tree Service LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.28 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2016→2018

Nelson Tree Service LLC injury rate improved

Nelson Tree Service LLC's TCR fell 0.9 from 1.8 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Frankfort, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #16/133
  • PHOTO Keesen Landscape Man…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~359 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keesen Landscape Management, Centennial (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson Tree Service LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Tree Service LLC averages 1.7 TCR (38% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson Tree Service LLC TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=0.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Nelson Tree Service LLC falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 133 Arborist services employers in Illinois.

Nelson Tree Service LLC (359 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Nelson Tree Service LLC
Nelson Tree Service LLC (359 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Nelson 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
2018 0.8 0.3 3 0 0
2017 2.5 0.6 9 0 0
2016 1.8 0.0 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IL · Frankfort

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 60 employers in Frankfort, IL · 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 Keesen Landscape Management, Centennial 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burford's Trees LLC Region 343 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 100201 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5736 - Fort Wayne 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Shop 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE Julian Electric Inc. 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grayslake 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE Topgolf Naperville 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelson Tree Service, LLC 468 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advantage Industrial Systems, LLC 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice : FRANKFORT 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR 531-00509 243 FTE
NAT-TCR Tutor Perini Building Corp. - Northeast 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR BASF 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tech Blvd. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SER 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jerome Cheese Co 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primetals Technologies Worcester 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cameron 4601 Westway Park Blvd 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hydro - Delhi 359 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.