Garbage pick-up services · Connecticut

City of New Haven - Public Works

New Haven, CT · ~131 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
30.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of New Haven - Public Works runs at 1178% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage pick-up services workplace, earning a grade F.

City of New Haven - Public Works: 30.6 TCR = 1178% of Garbage pick-up services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of New Haven - Public Works safety composite

City of New Haven - Public Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 30.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

−17.1

2017→2018

City of New Haven - Public Works injury rate improved

City of New Haven - Public Works's TCR fell 17.1 from 39.2 in 2017 to 22.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 39.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=39.2 · 2018=22.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · New Haven, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 30.6 · 1178% of ind

  • DART 21.4 DART
  • RANK #47/47
  • PHOTO Shank Waste Service …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shank Waste Service Inc. (1.4 TCR gap)

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City of New Haven - Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of New Haven - Public Works averages 30.6 TCR (1178% of the Garbage pick-up services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

City of New Haven - Public Works TCR series: 2017=39.2 · 2018=22.1 · BLS 2.6

Where City of New Haven - Public Works falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage pick-up services establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 47 Garbage pick-up services employers in Connecticut.

City of New Haven - Public Works (131 employees, TCR 30.6) 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate City of New Haven - Public Works
City of New Haven - Public Works (131 employees, TCR 30.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

City of New Haven - Public Works 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
2018 22.1 21.4 32 1 0
2017 39.2 17.7 58 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CT · New Haven

2,322 Garbage pick-up services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 233 employers in New Haven, CT · 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 Shank Waste Service Inc. 29.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capitol Waste Services Inc. 29.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Affinity Waste Solutions 28.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recology San Mateo County 28.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Town of Enfield - Public Safety/Enfield Police Department 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE 226_309 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apple Rehab Shelton Lakes 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE KETTLE BROOK CARE CENTER LLC 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yale-New Haven Hospital 15,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation 3,514 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Haven Sales/Admin. 1,001 FTE
CITY-NEAR Administrative Office 978 FTE
NAT-TCR Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 048 Juvenile Detention Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR EWR - Ground Ops 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mystick Park Nursing and Rehab Center 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Telfer Paving Technology-McClellan, CA 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE MB-Atlanta 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1157 131 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: 2018, 2017. 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.