Garbage pick-up services · Pennsylvania

Big's Sanitation

Elizabeth, PA · ~98 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big's Sanitation runs at 895% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage pick-up services workplace, earning a grade F.

Big's Sanitation: 23.3 TCR = 895% of Garbage pick-up services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big's Sanitation safety composite

Big's Sanitation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

TCR Δ

−30.3

2023→2024

Big's Sanitation injury rate improved

Big's Sanitation's TCR fell 30.3 from 38.4 in 2023 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 38.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=38.4 · 2024=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Elizabeth, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.3 · 895% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #114/116
  • PHOTO SUNSET SCAVENGER COM…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SUNSET SCAVENGER COMPANY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big's Sanitation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big's Sanitation averages 23.3 TCR (895% of the Garbage pick-up services BLS benchmark).

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

Big's Sanitation TCR series: 2023=38.4 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Big's Sanitation falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage pick-up services establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #114 safest of 116 Garbage pick-up services employers in Pennsylvania.

Big's Sanitation (98 employees, TCR 23.3) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Big's Sanitation
Big's Sanitation (98 employees, TCR 23.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Big's Sanitation has more employees than the Garbage pick-up services 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 8.1 8.1 8 0 0
2023 38.4 38.4 5 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · PA · Elizabeth

2,322 Garbage pick-up services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 17 employers in Elizabeth, PA · 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 SUNSET SCAVENGER COMPANY 23.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emterra Environmental USA -Port Huron 23.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation 23.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Round Rock Refuse 23.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Franklin Labs D/B/A Trulieve 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oregon Maintenance Shop 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hankin Group 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daniel J. Keating 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elizabeth Giant Eagle 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR 483036-Elizabeth Forward | PA | 483036 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elizabeth 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR STA - Elizabeth Forward 72 FTE
NAT-TCR Arizona Sunshine Ranch, Inc. 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Porite Jefferson Corporation 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulare County Fire 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southport Yachts, LLC 23.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chr Hansen - Madison 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeigler Schaumburg Chevrolet 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 138 Harvester 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE DHMCO Associates LLC 98 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. 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.