Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid · Tennessee

Barker Brothers Waste

Name: Barker Brothers Waste Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Union City, TN · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 5.3
Avg TCR: 2.6
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Barker Brothers Waste runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid workplace, earning a grade F.

Barker Brothers Waste: 5.3 TCR = 205% of Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barker Brothers Waste safety composite

Barker Brothers Waste scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Barker Brothers Waste: 1.9 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2018

Barker Brothers Waste's TCR rose 4.5 from 1.9 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Union City, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 205% of ind

DART 6.4 DART
RANK #29/43
PHOTO S04550 - Pine Bluff …
BOOK 3y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S04550 - Pine Bluff Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Barker Brothers Waste averages 5.3 TCR (205% of the Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid BLS benchmark).

Barker Brothers Waste TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=6.4 · BLS 2.6

Where Barker Brothers Waste falls in its industry

2,322 Waste collection services, non establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 43 Waste collection services, non employers in Tennessee.

Barker Brothers Waste (49 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Barker Brothers Waste has fewer employees than the Waste collection services, nonhazardous 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
2018	6.4	6.4	4
2017	7.7	5.8	4
2016	1.9	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · TN · Union City

2,322 Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 44 employers in Union City, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	S04550 - Pine Bluff Hauling	PINE BLUFF, AR	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Greater Greenville Sanitation Commission	GREENVILLE, SC	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	County Waste LLC 2	FREDERICKSBURG, VA	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Earth City - Missouri	EARTH CITY, MO	5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Natural Gas Utility District of Hawkins County	ROGERSVILLE	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	THOMAS BUILDERS INC	NIOTA	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Carter Group, LLC	NASHVILLE	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sain Construction Co.	MANCHESTER	49 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Obion County Plant	Union City	1,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Williams Sausage	Union City	414 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hickman Road Plant	Union City	376 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union City	Union City	335 FTE
NAT-TCR	Sacramento East Recycle	Sacramento, CA	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Palmer Indy East/Palmer Leasing Group Indianapolis	Indianapolis, IN	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Donaldson Company- Stevens Point	Stevens Point, WI	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Medford Wellington Service Co., Inc.	N Billerica, MA	5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Lemore Transportation Inc	Concord, CA	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	WDC	Manassas, VA	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wausau- 09	Weston, WI	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CA.SACRA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc.	Sacramento, CA	49 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.