Garbage collection services · Illinois

Area - Morton

Morton, IL · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Area - Morton runs at 644% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Area - Morton: 16.8 TCR = 644% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Area - Morton safety composite

Area - Morton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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 - Morton held a steady TCR band

Area - Morton's TCR held near 0.0 from 13.1 in 2016 to 13.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 27.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.1 · 2017=11.1 · 2018=18.5 · 2019=27.9 · 2020=13.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 644% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #140/143
  • PHOTO Conwaste Recogido De…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Conwaste Recogido Desperdicios Solidos Carolina (0.0 TCR gap)

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Area - Morton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Area - Morton averages 16.8 TCR (644% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Area - Morton TCR series: 2016=13.1 · 2017=11.1 · 2018=18.5 · 2019=27.9 · 2020=13.2 · BLS 2.6

Where Area - Morton falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #140 safest of 143 Garbage collection services employers in Illinois.

Area - Morton (28 employees, TCR 16.8) 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 Area - Morton
Area - Morton (28 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Area - Morton has fewer 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
2020 13.2 6.6 4 0 0
2019 27.9 24.4 8 0 0
2018 18.5 14.8 5 0 0
2017 11.1 3.7 3 0 0
2016 13.1 9.8 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IL · Morton

2,322 Garbage collection services 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 Conwaste Recogido Desperdicios Solidos Carolina 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howie's Enterprises LLC 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Asheville Public Works 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LFUCG - Division of Waste Management 16.8 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 20-Turabo Heights 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gladwin Pines Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Comstock Park Thrift Store 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 2059 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Immunotek BioCenters, LLC - Altoona, PA 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Systems Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : EWN - New Bern 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Road Animal Hospital 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.