Hazardous waste treatment facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste · Pennsylvania

Aerc - 02

Allentown, PA · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aerc - 02 runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hazardous waste treatment facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste workplace, earning a grade D.

Aerc - 02: 4.6 TCR = 178% of Hazardous waste treatment facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aerc - 02 safety composite

Aerc - 02 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Aerc - 02: 0.0 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.8× in 2021

Aerc - 02's TCR rose 8.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 8.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562211 · Allentown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 178% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Circon Environmental…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Circon Environmental - Lonestar Ecology, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aerc - 02 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aerc - 02 averages 4.6 TCR (178% of the Hazardous waste treatment facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste BLS benchmark).

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

Aerc - 02 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=11.1 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=8.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Aerc - 02 falls in its industry

211 Hazardous waste treatment faci establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Hazardous waste treatment faci employers in Pennsylvania.

Aerc - 02 (33 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 Aerc - 02
Aerc - 02 (33 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Aerc - 02 has fewer employees than the Hazardous waste treatment facilities com median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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 8.3 8.3 2 0 0
2020 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2019 11.1 7.4 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562211 · PA · Allentown

211 Hazardous waste treatment facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, PA · 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 Circon Environmental - Lonestar Ecology, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burlington Environmental LLC, A Clean Earth Environmental Solutions Inc. Co., Tacoma, WA 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAX Environmental Technologies, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ND,FARGO - Hesi Building - Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colver Power Project 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oil City 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norristown Operations 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR Warm Springs Indian Head Casino 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Greater Austin Development 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SEMCO Energy Gas Company - Chesterfield 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NORTH 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Njmdls-Yapi-Middlesex County Nj 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Truck Fleet Services LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wentworth at East Millcreek 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eversource - Boston 33 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.