Waste Management · Oregon

Best Pots Inc

Albany, OR · ~81 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Pots Inc runs at 366% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste Management workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Pots Inc: 9.5 TCR = 366% of Waste Management BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Pots Inc safety composite

Best Pots Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Best Pots Inc: 4.8 → 20.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 20.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Best Pots Inc's TCR rose 15.9 from 4.8 in 2022 to 20.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562998 · Albany, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 366% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO R.K. Hydro-Vac, PA, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R.K. Hydro-Vac, PA, Inc (0.3 TCR gap)

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Best Pots Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Pots Inc averages 9.5 TCR (366% of the Waste Management BLS benchmark).

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

Best Pots Inc TCR series: 2022=4.8 · 2023=3 · 2024=20.7 · BLS 2.6

Where Best Pots Inc falls in its industry

121 Waste Management establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Best Pots Inc (81 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Pots Inc
Best Pots Inc (81 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Best Pots Inc has more employees than the Waste Management median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 20.7 5.2 4 0 0
2023 3.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 4.8 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562998 · OR · Albany

121 Waste Management employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 163 employers in Albany, OR · 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 R.K. Hydro-Vac, PA, Inc 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Water Main Cleaning Company (Utica Division) 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADS LLC - Earth City 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Environmental LLC 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pacific Ag - Western Business Unit 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ausland Builders, Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6400-SWY-0045-0045-08404 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swire Coca-Cola of Eugene 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0558 - Albany DC 1,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0558 - Albany OR DC 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linn-Benton Community College 1,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR ATI Millersburg Operations 896 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercy Circle 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Julia Ribaudo Extended Care Center 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hansen Dam Golf Maintenance 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Gables Farmington 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jacob Leinenkugel's Brewing Co. 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pal Collierville LLC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joy Global Underground Mining 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE InfoSeal 81 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.