Trash hauling, local · Indiana

Best Way Disposal

Modoc, IN · ~76 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Way Disposal runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trash hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Way Disposal: 5.7 TCR = 219% of Trash hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Way Disposal safety composite

Best Way Disposal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Best Way Disposal: 4.6 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2024

Best Way Disposal's TCR rose 5.4 from 4.6 in 2016 to 9.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Modoc, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 219% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #39/71
  • PHOTO S10178 - Osceola Hau…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S10178 - Osceola Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Way Disposal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Way Disposal averages 5.7 TCR (219% of the Trash hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Best Way Disposal TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=7 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=1 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=4 · 2024=9.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Best Way Disposal falls in its industry

2,322 Trash hauling, local establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 71 Trash hauling, local employers in Indiana.

Best Way Disposal (76 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Best Way Disposal
Best Way Disposal (76 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Best Way Disposal has more employees than the Trash hauling, local 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 9.9 6.0 10 0 0
2023 4.0 4.0 4 0 0
2022 6.1 4.1 6 0 0
2021 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 8.5 4.2 8 0 0
2019 7.8 4.4 7 0 0
2018 7.0 5.8 5 1 0
2017 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2016 4.6 4.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IN · Modoc

2,322 Trash hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 3 employers in Modoc, IN · 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 S10178 - Osceola Hauling 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5412-Evergreen Disposal 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S10389 - Warren County Hauling 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taunton Hauling 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vectren Corporation - FB Culley 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE 385-NiSource-LaPorte IN-Operating HQ 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydaker-Wheatlake Statewide Indiana 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE IWP, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverstart III Solar Farm 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Randolph Farms Inc 20 FTE
NAT-TCR WCO 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mondelez North Smithfield 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR BIR 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MBI Products Co. 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tesone Transport 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cal-Maine Foods Inc. Conventional 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maplecrest Rehabilitation & Living center 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE VT Industries Inc.- VT Architectural Products 76 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, 2021, 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.