Garbage collection services · New York

Cogent Waste Solutions LLC

Brooklyn, NY · ~120 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cogent Waste Solutions LLC runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade A.

Cogent Waste Solutions LLC: 1.2 TCR = 48% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cogent Waste Solutions LLC safety composite

Cogent Waste Solutions LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

Cogent Waste Solutions LLC: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2023

Cogent Waste Solutions LLC's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2020 to 1.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Brooklyn, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 48% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #3/73
  • PHOTO International Paper …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper Recycling - Kent (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cogent Waste Solutions LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cogent Waste Solutions LLC averages 1.2 TCR (48% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Cogent Waste Solutions LLC TCR series: 2020=0 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=1.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Cogent Waste Solutions LLC falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 94% 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 #3 safest of 73 Garbage collection services employers in New York.

Cogent Waste Solutions LLC (120 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 Cogent Waste Solutions LLC
Cogent Waste Solutions LLC (120 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Cogent Waste Solutions LLC 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
2023 1.6 1.6 3 0 0
2022 2.1 1.1 3 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NY · Brooklyn

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 941 employers in Brooklyn, 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 International Paper Recycling - Kent 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services of Tri-Cities 4825 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper Recycling - Phoenix 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reeds Spring 3018 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nesbitt Fruit Farms 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Global Facility Management & Construction Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Power Inc-NY-Canton 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peckham Road Corp 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR EDI - Brooklyn 946 9,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR S & A Unified Home Care, Inc. 7,782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maimonides Medical Center 6,641 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn 5,690 FTE
NAT-TCR Anderson & Vreeland Inc. East 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Jet Processing 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Allmark Door Company HQ 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lafont Inn LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yorkville 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toray Membrane USA, Inc. 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermal Spray Technologies, Inc. 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Manor Care Center 120 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: 2023, 2022, 2020. 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.