Landscaping services (except planning) · Kansas

Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC

Hutchinson, KS · ~75 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscaping services (except planning) workplace, earning a grade D.

Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC: 6.3 TCR = 140% of Landscaping services (except planning) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC safety composite

Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−17.7

2018→2023

Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC injury rate improved

Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC's TCR fell 17.7 from 19.1 in 2018 to 1.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=19.1 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Hutchinson, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 140% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #9/20
  • PHOTO Bluegrass Lawncare o…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bluegrass Lawncare of St. Louis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC averages 6.3 TCR (140% of the Landscaping services (except planning) BLS benchmark).

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

Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC TCR series: 2018=19.1 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC falls in its industry

2,875 Landscaping services (except p establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 20 Landscaping services (except p employers in Kansas.

Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC (75 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC
Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC (75 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC has more employees than the Landscaping services (except planning) 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2022 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.1 1.0 4 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 3 0 0
2019 8.6 6.9 5 0 0
2018 19.1 9.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · KS · Hutchinson

2,875 Landscaping services (except planning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 94 employers in Hutchinson, KS · 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 Bluegrass Lawncare of St. Louis 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5870 - Boston West 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5287 - South Dennis 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cold Creek Nurseries 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Haren & Laughlin Construction Co., Inc. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT Lenexa 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE F&H Insulation Sales and Services, Inc. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway Industries, LLC - Kansas City 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System 1,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson Regional Medical Center 956 FTE
CITY-NEAR 794 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 794 336 FTE
NAT-TCR Tecta Brockton 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stilwell Hatchery (Noel) 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tss - Nd 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn Akron Canton Airport 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Production Engineering Corporation 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fremont Recycling and Transfer Station 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE iNRCORE, LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merchandise Warehouse, Inc 75 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.