Arborist services · Massachusetts

Osterville, MA

Osterville, MA · ~33 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Osterville, MA runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade D.

Osterville, MA: 6.7 TCR = 148% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Osterville, MA safety composite

Osterville, MA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Osterville, MA: 0.0 → 14.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.21× in 2024

Osterville, MA's TCR rose 14.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 14.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Osterville, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 148% of ind

  • DART 14.7 DART
  • RANK #35/58
  • PHOTO Meehan's Lawn Servic…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meehan's Lawn Service Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Osterville, MA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Osterville, MA averages 6.7 TCR (148% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Osterville, MA TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=6 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=11.5 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=14.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Osterville, MA falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 58 Arborist services employers in Massachusetts.

Osterville, MA (33 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Osterville, MA
Osterville, MA (33 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Osterville, MA has fewer employees than the Arborist services median and a higher 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 14.7 14.7 6 0 0
2023 12.5 10.0 4 1 0
2022 11.5 5.7 4 0 0
2021 9.2 9.2 3 0 0
2020 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2019 6.0 6.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MA · Osterville

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 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 Meehan's Lawn Service Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Next to Nature Landscape 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Annapolis, MD 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilson Landscape Associates 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green City Growers 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Good Chemistry - Holliston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Boston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH ADAMS-MA27 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crosby Yacht Yard Inc 37 FTE
NAT-TCR Annapolis, MD 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nicollet County Sheriff's Office 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Embassy Suites 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Environment Control 439 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Adam Roe Painting, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kona-KOA 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yorktown VA 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lyon and Billard Meriden 33 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.