Garbage collection services · Maine

Casella Waste - Columbia

Columbia, ME · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Casella Waste - Columbia runs at 657% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Casella Waste - Columbia: 17.1 TCR = 657% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Casella Waste - Columbia safety composite

Casella Waste - Columbia scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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 17.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.11 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%).

Rising injury rate

Casella Waste - Columbia: 6.5 → 16.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 45.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Casella Waste - Columbia's TCR rose 9.7 from 6.5 in 2021 to 16.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 45.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Columbia, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.1 · 657% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO North Lincoln Sanita…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Lincoln Sanitary Service (0.0 TCR gap)

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Casella Waste - Columbia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Casella Waste - Columbia averages 17.1 TCR (657% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Casella Waste - Columbia TCR series: 2021=6.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=45.6 · 2024=16.2 · BLS 2.6

Where Casella Waste - Columbia falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Garbage collection services employers in Maine.

Casella Waste - Columbia (20 employees, TCR 17.1) 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 Casella Waste - Columbia
Casella Waste - Columbia (20 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Casella Waste - Columbia has fewer 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 16.2 8.1 2 0 0
2023 45.6 32.6 7 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.5 6.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · ME · Columbia

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 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 North Lincoln Sanitary Service 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitton Container 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR East 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Independent Recycling Services Inc 17.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Irish Family Logging, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Logging 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Logging 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeLaite Trucking Inc 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mark Wright Construction INC 25 FTE
NAT-TCR HW Village 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Christian Rest Home Association 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Classic Groundcovers, Inc 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lutheran Home: Hope Residence 17.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manfreda Construction Corp 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE R & D Meat, LTD 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Electrical Contractors Klamath Falls 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE RotoCo - Vista 20 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. 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.