Arborist services · Washington

Seattle, WA

Lynnwood, WA · ~33 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seattle, WA runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade D.

Seattle, WA: 7.8 TCR = 174% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seattle, WA safety composite

Seattle, WA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Seattle, WA: 3.3 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2024

Seattle, WA's TCR rose 9.1 from 3.3 in 2018 to 12.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Lynnwood, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #28/52
  • PHOTO W.B. Starr, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: W.B. Starr, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seattle, WA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seattle, WA averages 7.8 TCR (174% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Seattle, WA TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=12.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Seattle, WA falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 52 Arborist services employers in Washington.

Seattle, WA (33 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA (33 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Seattle, WA 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 12.4 2.5 5 0 0
2023 8.2 0.0 3 0 0
2022 11.1 5.5 4 0 0
2021 6.1 0.0 2 0 0
2020 6.8 0.0 2 0 0
2019 6.9 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.3 3.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · WA · Lynnwood

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 112 employers in Lynnwood, WA · 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 W.B. Starr, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Villani Landshapers Lawn and Landscape Maintenance Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wingren Landscape Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Relentless Land Care 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Olsen Ag Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamondback Acres Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Washington 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trout Lake Farm West Farm 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eldec Aerospace Corp. 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Lynnwood 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1190 - LYNNWOOD WA WHSE 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR 701-00180 297 FTE
NAT-TCR DSM Cook 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NEPW Logistics - South Paris 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gardenland Power Equipment 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Newington High School 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Production Ave 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Services 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Don King's Concrete, Inc 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hangar 10 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. 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.