Arborist services · California

Ponderosa Tree Service

Berkeley, CA · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ponderosa Tree Service runs at 371% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade F.

Ponderosa Tree Service: 16.7 TCR = 371% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ponderosa Tree Service safety composite

Ponderosa Tree Service scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Ponderosa Tree Service: 13.1 → 20.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 20.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2021

Ponderosa Tree Service's TCR rose 7.2 from 13.1 in 2020 to 20.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Berkeley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.7 · 371% of ind

  • DART 20.3 DART
  • RANK #407/448
  • PHOTO TexaScapes - Yard
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TexaScapes - Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ponderosa Tree Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ponderosa Tree Service averages 16.7 TCR (371% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Ponderosa Tree Service TCR series: 2020=13.1 · 2021=20.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Ponderosa Tree Service falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #407 safest of 448 Arborist services employers in California.

Ponderosa Tree Service (26 employees, TCR 16.7) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ponderosa Tree Service
Ponderosa Tree Service (26 employees, TCR 16.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Ponderosa Tree Service 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
2021 20.3 20.3 4 0 0
2020 13.1 8.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Berkeley

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, 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 TexaScapes - Yard 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norcross 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR G&M Outdoor Services, LLC 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JENSEN'S TREE SERVICE, INC 16.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE HAULING & TRAILER SHOP 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seasholtz Co., LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redwood Valley Vineyards 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Central Coast Vineyards 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley, CA 1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR 6458-ZNML 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZBKA 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rivega, LLC. 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 237488-Princess Anne Po 16.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern States Buckhannon Coop. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE SWR030 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoosier Magnetics 26 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.