Garbage collection services · Pennsylvania

Burgmeier Hauling - PA

Altoona, PA · ~117 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burgmeier Hauling - PA runs at 349% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Burgmeier Hauling - PA: 9.1 TCR = 349% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burgmeier Hauling - PA safety composite

Burgmeier Hauling - PA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Burgmeier Hauling - PA: 7.2 → 18.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

Burgmeier Hauling - PA's TCR rose 10.9 from 7.2 in 2018 to 18.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Altoona, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 349% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #83/116
  • PHOTO Sunrise Sanitation S…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunrise Sanitation Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burgmeier Hauling - PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burgmeier Hauling - PA averages 9.1 TCR (349% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Burgmeier Hauling - PA TCR series: 2018=7.2 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=6 · 2021=7.4 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=18.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Burgmeier Hauling - PA falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #83 safest of 116 Garbage collection services employers in Pennsylvania.

Burgmeier Hauling - PA (117 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 Burgmeier Hauling - PA
Burgmeier Hauling - PA (117 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Burgmeier Hauling - PA has more employees than the Garbage collection 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 18.1 11.1 18 0 0
2023 7.5 7.5 10 0 0
2021 7.4 7.4 9 0 0
2020 6.0 6.0 10 0 0
2019 8.2 6.0 11 0 0
2018 7.2 7.2 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · PA · Altoona

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 120 employers in Altoona, 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 Sunrise Sanitation Services 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leck Waste Services - Ivyland 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR S09913 - Upper Marlboro Hauling 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus, Oh Hauling Operations 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BTS 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE 507 Forest Ave., Carnegie, PA 15106 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarks Summit 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sila KOP 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pyramid Healthcare Inc 3,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Altoona 2,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Nursing Agency and Visiting Nurse Association 785 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Altoona Regional Health Services Inc 606 FTE
NAT-TCR Municipal Service Center - Streets 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ILC004 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Singing Hills Landscape Inc 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR G3 Enterprises, Inc. - Minerals Division 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE AgriSystems, Inc. 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patton Air Conditioning 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avera Health Avera Sacred Heart Hospital Campus 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakmont of Montecito 117 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, 2021, 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.