Garbage collection services · Michigan

City Star Services

Kalamazoo, MI · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City Star Services runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

City Star Services: 4.4 TCR = 170% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City Star Services safety composite

City Star Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

City Star Services held a steady TCR band

City Star Services's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.4 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.4 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 170% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #26/80
  • PHOTO S06698 - Winton Disp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S06698 - Winton Disposal (0.0 TCR gap)

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City Star Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City Star Services averages 4.4 TCR (170% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

City Star Services TCR series: 2023=4.4 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 2.6

Where City Star Services falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 80 Garbage collection services employers in Michigan.

City Star Services (90 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 City Star Services
City Star Services (90 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

City Star Services has more employees than the Garbage collection services median and a lower 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 4.4 4.4 5 0 0
2023 4.4 0.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MI · Kalamazoo

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 353 employers in Kalamazoo, MI · 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 S06698 - Winton Disposal 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yorktown 4957 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iowa 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Pro 113 - Crestview 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Burgess Concrete Construction, Inc 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6663_15443 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welch Foods Inc. Lawton 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Head Quarters 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson Methodist Hospital 4,909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road 3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments 2,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIKAL1 2,103 FTE
NAT-TCR Coldspring Branch 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR A-Del Construction Company, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Thermal Transfer Products 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 200 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moore Industries 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electro-Mechanical Industries 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canton Perry Yard 90 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.