Arborist services · Ohio

Nelson Tree Service LLC

Urbana, OH · ~555 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Tree Service LLC runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade A.

Nelson Tree Service LLC: 1.8 TCR = 39% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−0.6

2016→2019

Nelson Tree Service LLC injury rate improved

Nelson Tree Service LLC's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.2 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.2 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Urbana, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #49/215
  • PHOTO 177701
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~555 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 177701 (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 1.8 TCR (39% 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=2.2 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.6 · 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 Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 215 Arborist services employers in Ohio.

Nelson Tree Service LLC (555 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Nelson Tree Service LLC
Nelson Tree Service LLC (555 employees, TCR 1.8) 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
2019 1.6 0.9 10 1 0
2018 1.4 0.5 8 0 0
2016 2.2 0.4 8 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · OH · Urbana

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 50 employers in Urbana, OH · 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 177701 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winkler's Tree & Landscaping, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Region 065 - Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Memphis 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illuminate USA 555 FTE
STATE-SIZE HIAB USA 555 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cabinetworks Group Middlefield Plant #3 Orwell 556 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABF Freight 064 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rittal North America LLC 602 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell Aerospace - Urbana 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelson Tree Service, LLC 460 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR Urbana - Honeywell Aerospace 445 FTE
NAT-TCR USA North Syracuse 146 Constellation Way N 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Specialty Solutions 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 808 - Charlotte 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kings Mountain - 101 Reliance Road 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Michelin North America - US4 Dothan 555 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Heinz I.R.M. 555 FTE
NAT-SIZE McLean 555 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Marcos (Casmr) 555 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: 2019, 2018, 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.