Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste · Massachusetts

Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc.

Norwell, MA · ~6,952 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste workplace, earning a grade A.

Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc.: 1.2 TCR = 46% of Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. safety composite

Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 1.2 in 2018 to 1.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.2 · 2019=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562211 · Norwell, MA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Corporate & Field Se…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 188 inj
  • SIZE ~6,952 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corporate & Field Service (0.0 TCR gap)

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Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. averages 1.2 TCR (46% of the Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste BLS benchmark).

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

Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. TCR series: 2018=1.2 · 2019=1.2 · BLS 2.6

Where Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. falls in its industry

211 Hazardous waste disposal facil establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Hazardous waste disposal facil employers in Massachusetts.

Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. (6,952 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc.
Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. (6,952 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. has more employees than the Hazardous waste disposal facilities comb median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2019 1.2 0.6 98 1 1
2018 1.2 0.7 90 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562211 · MA · Norwell

211 Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 60 employers in Norwell, MA · 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 Corporate & Field Service 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR USIT 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peoria Bodine 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Resource Recovery 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dana Farber Cancer Institute 7,113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mass General Brigham Inc 7,655 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tufts Medical Center 5,938 FTE
STATE-SIZE BMC - Baystate Medical Center 8,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Shore YMCA 1,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clean Harbors Environmental Services Corporate Office 894 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Shore Medical Center - 143 Longwater 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Shore Medical Center 367 FTE
NAT-TCR Quest Liner-Blue Grass 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pse&G Gas Delivery 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR JCFS-APG 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chicago Area Consolidation Hub (Ilhod) 6,953 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rosendin - Main 6,964 FTE
NAT-SIZE James Madison University 6,991 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.