Solid Waste and Recycle Collection · Illinois

Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC

Morton, IL · ~28 workers · 3 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

Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC runs at 305% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Solid Waste and Recycle Collection workplace, earning a grade F.

Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC: 7.9 TCR = 305% of Solid Waste and Recycle Collection BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC safety composite

Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC held a steady TCR band

Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC's TCR held near 0.3 from 10.8 in 2022 to 10.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.8 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=10.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Morton, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 305% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #104/143
  • PHOTO S05354 - WI Antigo/W…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S05354 - WI Antigo/Wausau (0.0 TCR gap)

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Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC averages 7.9 TCR (305% of the Solid Waste and Recycle Collection BLS benchmark).

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

Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC TCR series: 2022=10.8 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC falls in its industry

2,322 Solid Waste and Recycle Collec establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 143 Solid Waste and Recycle Collec employers in Illinois.

Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC (28 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 Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC
Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC (28 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Area Disposal Service Inc. Morton HC has fewer employees than the Solid Waste and Recycle 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
2024 10.5 7.9 4 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 10.8 10.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IL · Morton

2,322 Solid Waste and Recycle Collection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 93 employers in Morton, IL · 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 S05354 - WI Antigo/Wausau 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tiger Sanitation, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03175 - WM Toms River Hauling 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Industries Vance-Granville 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Parts Distribution Center 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR Matcor Metal Fabrication Morton 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Industries LLC 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5157 294 FTE
NAT-TCR Norwood Manufacturing, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Ford Cottage Hospital 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR COMBDRIN-IndyNorth 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heaven Hill Bernheim Distillery 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aurora Manufacturing Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE LAX Service Center 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE SJD Machining 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaiser Aluminum Richland 28 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.