Garbage collection services · Indiana

96th st. MRF & TS

Indianapolis, IN · ~246 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

96th st. MRF & TS runs at 305% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

96th st. MRF & TS: 7.9 TCR = 305% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

96th st. MRF & TS safety composite

96th st. MRF & TS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

96th st. MRF & TS: 4.7 → 24.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 24.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2021

96th st. MRF & TS's TCR rose 20.1 from 4.7 in 2018 to 24.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Indianapolis, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 305% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #53/71
  • PHOTO Waste Industries Van…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~246 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waste Industries Vance-Granville (0.0 TCR gap)

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96th st. MRF & TS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 96th st. MRF & TS averages 7.9 TCR (305% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

96th st. MRF & TS TCR series: 2018=4.7 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=24.7 · BLS 2.6

Where 96th st. MRF & TS falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 71 Garbage collection services employers in Indiana.

96th st. MRF & TS (246 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 96th st. MRF & TS
96th st. MRF & TS (246 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

96th st. MRF & TS has more employees than the Garbage collection services 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
2021 24.7 4.1 5 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 4.7 4.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IN · Indianapolis

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, IN · 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 Waste Industries Vance-Granville 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CR&R Incorporated - Colton 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE ArcelorMittal Corporate - Burns Harbor 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE 266 - Portage IN 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth Plant 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health, Inc 7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center 6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lilly Technology Center 6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR Adult Correction Center 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Linder Equipment Company 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Furniture - Leesport 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Scott Stone - Mebane 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Rapids Components 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE STEICO Industries 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph's Hospital, Highland 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sign-Zone, LLC (MN Headquarters) 246 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, 2020, 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.