Tree services (e.g., bracing, planting, pruning, removal, spraying, surgery, trimming) · Oregon

Sperry Tree Care

Eugene, OR · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sperry Tree Care runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tree services (e.g., bracing, planting, pruning, removal, spraying, surgery, trimming) workplace, earning a grade C.

Sperry Tree Care: 4.9 TCR = 109% of Tree services (e.g., bracing, planting, pruning, removal, spraying, surgery, trimming) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sperry Tree Care safety composite

Sperry Tree Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Sperry Tree Care: 4.9 → 176.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 176.3 TCR · DART/TCR 18.02× in 2021

Sperry Tree Care's TCR rose 171.4 from 4.9 in 2019 to 176.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 18.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Eugene, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 109% of ind

  • DART 88.1 DART
  • RANK #16/38
  • PHOTO BillMar LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BillMar LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sperry Tree Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sperry Tree Care averages 4.9 TCR (109% of the Tree services (e.g., bracing, planting, pruning, removal, spraying, surgery, trimming) BLS benchmark).

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

Sperry Tree Care TCR series: 2019=4.9 · 2021=176.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Sperry Tree Care falls in its industry

2,875 Tree services (e.g., bracing, establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 38 Tree services (e.g., bracing, employers in Oregon.

Sperry Tree Care (25 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Sperry Tree Care
Sperry Tree Care (25 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Sperry Tree Care has fewer employees than the Tree services (e.g., bracing, planting, 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 176.3 88.1 4 0 0
2019 4.9 4.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · OR · Eugene

2,875 Tree services (e.g., bracing, planting, pruning, removal, spraying, surgery, trimming) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 466 employers in Eugene, OR · 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 BillMar LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR a growing concern landscapes 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parks Maintenance 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GROUND PROS INC - ITASCA FACILITY 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE OFFICE 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ioka Farms 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE PRT Cottage Grove 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paul & Robert Wampler, Inc. 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR MATT KNIGHT ARENA 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hult Center for the Performing Arts 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHMG PHOR Clinics 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHMC at University District 564 FTE
NAT-TCR Weaver Precast Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Zach Gordon Youth Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Winzeler Coupling and Ferrule 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Finzer Roller - Pennsylvania 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Richland Center 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Two Rivers Terminal Moses Lake 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merrill Center 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shorts tool & mfg inc. 25 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, 2019. 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.