Solid waste combustors and incinerators · Florida

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc.

Tampa, FL · ~55 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Solid waste combustors and incinerators workplace, earning a grade A.

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc.: 0.4 TCR = 17% of Solid waste combustors and incinerators BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. safety composite

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc.: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562213 · Tampa, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Covanta Lee, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Covanta Lee, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Florida employers → · Look up another →

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. averages 0.4 TCR (17% of the Solid waste combustors and incinerators BLS benchmark).

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

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. falls in its industry

74 Solid waste combustors and inc establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Solid waste combustors and inc employers in Florida.

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. (55 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Covanta Hillsborough, Inc.
Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. (55 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. has more employees than the Solid waste combustors and incinerators median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562213 · FL · Tampa

74 Solid waste combustors and incinerators employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 1,659 employers in Tampa, FL · 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 Covanta Lee, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covanta Delaware Valley, L.P. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covanta Huntsville, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covanta Onondaga Limited Partnership 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE BBTS 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jay Plant 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anclote Fossil Plant 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longwood Operations Complex 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diversified Maintenance Systems LLC 10,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tampa General Hospital 7,849 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valet Living, LLC 6,337 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST. Joseph's Hospital (5100) 5,540 FTE
NAT-TCR Main 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas, TX 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR PathGroup 624 Grassmere 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hunter Corporate Offices 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zion Nuclear Power Station Demolition 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wakefield Farms LLP 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Appleton Retirement Community 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woolpert- Denver 55 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, 2017, 2016. 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.