Arborist services · Texas

Trees LLC 488

Houston, TX · ~138 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trees LLC 488 runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Arborist services workplace, earning a grade A.

Trees LLC 488: 1.9 TCR = 43% of Arborist services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trees LLC 488 safety composite

Trees LLC 488 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−0.6

2018→2023

Trees LLC 488 injury rate improved

Trees LLC 488's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.1 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 43% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #51/187
  • PHOTO Oberlander's Tree & …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oberlander's Tree & Landscape, LTD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trees LLC 488 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trees LLC 488 averages 1.9 TCR (43% of the Arborist services BLS benchmark).

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

Trees LLC 488 TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Trees LLC 488 falls in its industry

2,875 Arborist services establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 187 Arborist services employers in Texas.

Trees LLC 488 (138 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Trees LLC 488
Trees LLC 488 (138 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trees LLC 488 has more employees than the Arborist services median and a lower 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2022 3.2 0.0 5 0 0
2021 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.3 1.2 4 0 0
2018 2.1 1.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · TX · Houston

2,875 Arborist services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 Oberlander's Tree & Landscape, LTD 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ruppert Landscape - Wilmington 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR JH Landscaping & Irrigation, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HLU Services, Inc. 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robinson Drilling of Texas 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Odessa Brigade Energy Services 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Pumping 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longview TX 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Western 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR US Mix Denver 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayonne 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Digital Group, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAPP Cambridge - 006 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin County Rehab Center 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE CFER 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Hospice of Baton Rouge 138 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, 2019, 2018. 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.