Garbage hauling, local · Colorado

Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation

Colorado Springs, CO · ~138 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation runs at 906% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.6
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.6
industry benchmark (BLS)
100
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation's OSHA Total Case Rate of 23.6 to the Garbage hauling, local BLS benchmark of 2.6 (906% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.6 industry benchmark.

0102030 201820192020 18.22.6 Industry benchmarkBestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 562111.

Where Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation falls in its industry

2,506 Garbage hauling, local establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 56 Garbage hauling, local employers in Colorado.

Trend analysis for Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation

Between 2018 and 2020, Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation's Total Case Rate improved from 28.0 to 18.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 35% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 18.2, while 2018 saw the highest rate, at 28.0, a spread of 9.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 3 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 3 reporting years, Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation recorded 100 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 100 injuries, 1 illnesses shown on this page for Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 562111 - Garbage hauling, local.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

29 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 317,940 hours worked = 18.24 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation (this establishment) 23.56 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg
Garbage collection services industry avg 2.60 BLS IIF, NAICS 562111
Colorado state avg (all industries) 5.41 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 18.2 18.2 29 0 0
2019 24.4 17.8 36 1 0
2018 28.0 20.8 35 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation's reported OSHA injury record versus its Garbage hauling, local peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 906% of the Garbage hauling, local benchmark, Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Garbage hauling, local sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation's safety grade?
Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 23.6 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.6 for Garbage hauling, local.
How many injuries has Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation reported?
Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation has reported 100 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 3 years of OSHA data (2020, 2019, 2018). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.