Waste Management · New York

Chester Garage

Chester, NY · ~63 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chester Garage runs at 622% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste Management workplace, earning a grade F.

Chester Garage: 16.2 TCR = 622% of Waste Management BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chester Garage safety composite

Chester Garage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Chester Garage: 4.6 → 18.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 24.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2021

Chester Garage's TCR rose 14.1 from 4.6 in 2016 to 18.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 24.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Chester, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.2 · 622% of ind

  • DART 17.3 DART
  • RANK #69/73
  • PHOTO Recology Western Ore…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recology Western Oregon - Coast (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chester Garage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chester Garage averages 16.2 TCR (622% of the Waste Management BLS benchmark).

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

Chester Garage TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=12.5 · 2018=24.6 · 2020=20.5 · 2021=18.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Chester Garage falls in its industry

2,322 Waste Management establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 73 Waste Management employers in New York.

Chester Garage (63 employees, TCR 16.2) 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 Chester Garage
Chester Garage (63 employees, TCR 16.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Chester Garage has more employees than the Waste Management 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
2021 18.6 17.3 14 0 0
2020 20.5 20.5 13 0 0
2018 24.6 17.5 14 0 0
2017 12.5 9.4 7 1 0
2016 4.6 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NY · Chester

2,322 Waste Management employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 26 employers in Chester, NY · 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 Recology Western Oregon - Coast 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conwaste Coamo 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro- Solid Waste Operations- St John's Landfill 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Department of Streets & Sanitation - Bureau of Sanitation District Sanitation Office - D2 16.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMC East Ave 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NY State Solar HQ 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Kills Substation 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE KJJ Industries LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amscan 571 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Wholesale Grocers : Chester, NY (PDC) 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR ShopRite of Chester Plaza 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR CoachUSA 216 FTE
NAT-TCR Dynatrac Products 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HG444 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LAX - Ground Ops 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Worth CCA 16.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Closter 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Atlatl Group, LLC DBA Bravada Yachts 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE SUNNYVALE VW B&B Saab 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE SeniorLife Altoona, Inc 63 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: 2021, 2020, 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.