Garbage collection services · Connecticut

AAW - Norwalk

Stratford, CT · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AAW - Norwalk runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

AAW - Norwalk: 4.5 TCR = 171% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AAW - Norwalk safety composite

AAW - Norwalk scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

AAW - Norwalk: 2.0 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2024

AAW - Norwalk's TCR rose 4.9 from 2.0 in 2023 to 6.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Stratford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 171% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #25/47
  • PHOTO S04047 - KS TOPEKA H…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S04047 - KS TOPEKA HAULING (0.0 TCR gap)

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AAW - Norwalk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AAW - Norwalk averages 4.5 TCR (171% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

AAW - Norwalk TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 2.6

Where AAW - Norwalk falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 47 Garbage collection services employers in Connecticut.

AAW - Norwalk (39 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 AAW - Norwalk
AAW - Norwalk (39 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

AAW - Norwalk has fewer employees than the Garbage collection services median and a lower 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
2024 6.9 5.2 4 0 0
2023 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CT · Stratford

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 119 employers in Stratford, CT · 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 S04047 - KS TOPEKA HAULING 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robinson Waste Services 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04269 - Charlotte Hauling 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimble Company Recycle Center Twinsburg 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Water pollution control authority 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AJ WASTE SYSTEMS LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE yrc 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEF CT 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Stratford Main St (5225) 6,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Stratford 6900 Main St (5225) 6,665 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Medical Group, Inc. 2,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Medical Group - New Haven 1,612 FTE
NAT-TCR Southern Shutter Co. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Concrete Service Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashville, TN 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoprite of Linden 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boston 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ole South Auto Salvage, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wildcat Contractors, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tennessee Tanning Company 39 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. 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.