Arborist services · Michigan

Owen Tree Service, Inc

Attica, MI · ~76 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owen Tree Service, Inc runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade D.

Owen Tree Service, Inc: 6.9 TCR = 153% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owen Tree Service, Inc safety composite

Owen Tree Service, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Owen Tree Service, Inc: 3.9 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2023

Owen Tree Service, Inc's TCR rose 4.8 from 3.9 in 2017 to 8.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Attica, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.9 · 153% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #62/91
  • PHOTO North San Diego
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North San Diego (0.0 TCR gap)

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Owen Tree Service, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Owen Tree Service, Inc averages 6.9 TCR (153% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Owen Tree Service, Inc TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=11.3 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=8.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Owen Tree Service, Inc falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 91 Arborist services employers in Michigan.

Owen Tree Service, Inc (76 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 Owen Tree Service, Inc
Owen Tree Service, Inc (76 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Owen Tree Service, Inc has more 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
2023 8.7 3.3 7 1 0
2022 3.8 3.8 3 0 0
2021 8.9 7.4 6 0 0
2020 4.7 3.1 3 0 0
2018 11.3 6.3 8 1 0
2017 3.9 1.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MI · Attica

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan 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 North San Diego 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 104222 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NC - Raleigh 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fluresh Grand Rapids 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Operation Grow, LLC 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Energy Developments 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benton Harbor Service Center 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owen Tree Service Herbicide Division, Inc 16 FTE
NAT-TCR Crawford County Landfill 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Sparta 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR KW Woodworks 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NAPP Asheboro - 005 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roanoke Svc Bldg 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingsport Svc Ctr 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. F. Fischer, Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watts Equipment Company 76 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.