Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills · Indiana

Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District

Columbus, IN · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills workplace, earning a grade F.

Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District: 5.8 TCR = 222% of Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District safety composite

Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District: 0.0 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2017

Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District's TCR rose 11.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Columbus, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 222% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO S04003 - Pheasant Po…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S04003 - Pheasant Point Landfill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District averages 5.8 TCR (222% of the Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=11.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District falls in its industry

288 Refuse collecting and operatin establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Refuse collecting and operatin employers in Indiana.

Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District (17 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District
Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District (17 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District has fewer employees than the Refuse collecting and operating solid wa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2017 11.5 5.8 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · IN · Columbus

288 Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 141 employers in Columbus, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR S04003 - Pheasant Point Landfill 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pine Ridge Landfill 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR orchard hill sanitary landfill 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beech Hollow 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Boonville 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wagler & Associates Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ferguson Construction Company - Indiana 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Material Handling, Inc. 1,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR NTN Driveshaft Inc. 1,756 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus Engine Plant 1,335 FTE
CITY-NEAR Commons Office Building 1,248 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of Advance Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0576 - Meridian, Ms 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hayward Freight Forwarding (Cahar) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plainville Community Schools Middle School of Plainville 5.8 TCR

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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.