Tree pruning services · California

PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc

Santa Ana, CA · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tree pruning services workplace, earning a grade F.

PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc: 10.7 TCR = 237% of Tree pruning services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc safety composite

PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−1.5

2020→2022

PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc injury rate improved

PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc's TCR fell 1.5 from 10.1 in 2020 to 8.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.1 · 2021=13.3 · 2022=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Santa Ana, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 237% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #345/448
  • PHOTO Rea Landscape Manage…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rea Landscape Management LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc averages 10.7 TCR (237% of the Tree pruning services BLS benchmark).

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

PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc TCR series: 2020=10.1 · 2021=13.3 · 2022=8.6 · BLS 4.5

Where PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc falls in its industry

2,875 Tree pruning services establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #345 safest of 448 Tree pruning services employers in California.

PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc (31 employees, TCR 10.7) 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 PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc
PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc (31 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

PCA Arborists & Consultants Inc has fewer employees than the Tree pruning 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
2022 8.6 5.7 3 0 0
2021 13.3 13.3 4 0 0
2020 10.1 6.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Santa Ana

2,875 Tree pruning services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 492 employers in Santa Ana, CA · 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 Rea Landscape Management LLC. 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teufel Landscape - Corporate 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5678 - Buffalo North 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JAGIMO CORPORATION INC dba J & G LAWN & GARDEN 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GCF 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nielsen Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Star Nurseries LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Growers Inc 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Think Together 2,496 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Ana 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orange County/Los Angeles 1,072 FTE
CITY-NEAR 056937-SANTA ANA CA P&DC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Avantara Arrowhead 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Spas at Resort World 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CDC 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-MIKAL8 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ohio Steel Industries, Plastics Div. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE King Cash Saver # 21 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE DKM Sales 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland 31 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.