Hazardous waste collection services · Indiana

Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN

Gary, IN · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hazardous waste collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN: 4.2 TCR = 162% of Hazardous waste collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN safety composite

Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN: 0.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN's TCR rose 8.4 from 0.0 in 2023 to 8.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562112 · Gary, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 162% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Clean Harbors Enviro…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 3460R (0.0 TCR gap)

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Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN averages 4.2 TCR (162% of the Hazardous waste collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 2.6

Where Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN falls in its industry

183 Hazardous waste collection ser establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Hazardous waste collection ser employers in Indiana.

Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN (40 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN
Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN (40 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Clean Earth Specialty Waste Solutions, Gary, IN has more employees than the Hazardous waste collection services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 8.4 4.2 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562112 · IN · Gary

183 Hazardous waste collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 107 employers in Gary, IN · 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 Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 3460R 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77FNL 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 41RI 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennsylvania Terminal 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 320-NiSource-Chesterton IN-Bailly Gen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baer Field Service Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE IND-DWH-INDIANA 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR USS Gary Works - Plant 4,744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gary Works 3,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRNI Holdings, LLC 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DIN2 569 FTE
NAT-TCR STR0087 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Holmes Lumber 497 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nyltm - Ny Capital 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grants Pass 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bruce Tucker Construction 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Fir Lumber Company 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0673 40 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.