Solid Waste Collection · Tennessee

0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste

Johnson City, TN · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste runs at 570% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Solid Waste Collection workplace, earning a grade F.

0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste: 14.8 TCR = 570% of Solid Waste Collection BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste safety composite

0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste: 15.4 → 21.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 21.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2019

0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste's TCR rose 5.9 from 15.4 in 2016 to 21.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Johnson City, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 570% of ind

  • DART 21.3 DART
  • RANK #43/43
  • PHOTO Solid Waste
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Solid Waste (0.0 TCR gap)

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0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste averages 14.8 TCR (570% of the Solid Waste Collection BLS benchmark).

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

0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste TCR series: 2016=15.4 · 2017=7.7 · 2019=21.3 · BLS 2.6

Where 0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste falls in its industry

2,322 Solid Waste Collection establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 43 Solid Waste Collection employers in Tennessee.

0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste (59 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste
0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste (59 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

0000000306 Public Works-Solid Waste has more employees than the Solid Waste Collection median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2019 21.3 21.3 11 0 0
2017 7.7 7.7 4 0 0
2016 15.4 13.2 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · TN · Johnson City

2,322 Solid Waste Collection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 177 employers in Johnson City, TN · 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 Solid Waste 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Granger III & Associates 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burrtec Hauling - Santa Clarita 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle - Haverhill,MA 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Erwin Utilities Authority 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmark Construction 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rogers Group Inc. EMTN Construction 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campbell Construction, Inc. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Tennessee State University 4,802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson City Medical Center 2,099 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballad Health 1,586 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain States Health Alliance 1,033 FTE
NAT-TCR Forrest City (Arfor) 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vintage Faire Residential 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gainesville Health & Rehab Center 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0017-0016-04091 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hunter Keystone Peterbilt LP - Allentown 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meadow Gold Grand Junction - Grand Junction 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE CS Wholesale Grocers : Mauldin, SC (FDC) 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Myersville04 59 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.