Solid waste combustors and incinerators · New York

Covanta Niagara I, LLC

Niagara Falls, NY · ~104 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Covanta Niagara I, LLC runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Solid waste combustors and incinerators workplace, earning a grade A.

Covanta Niagara I, LLC: 0.7 TCR = 27% of Solid waste combustors and incinerators BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Covanta Niagara I, LLC safety composite

Covanta Niagara I, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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 Niagara I, LLC: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2019

Covanta Niagara I, LLC's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562213 · Niagara Falls, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Wheelabrator Glouces…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wheelabrator Gloucester Company, L.P. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Covanta Niagara I, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Covanta Niagara I, LLC averages 0.7 TCR (27% 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 Niagara I, LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Covanta Niagara I, LLC falls in its industry

74 Solid waste combustors and inc establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Solid waste combustors and inc employers in New York.

Covanta Niagara I, LLC (104 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Niagara I, LLC
Covanta Niagara I, LLC (104 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Covanta Niagara I, LLC 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562213 · NY · Niagara Falls

74 Solid waste combustors and incinerators employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 107 employers in Niagara Falls, 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 Wheelabrator Gloucester Company, L.P. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covanta Fairfax, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Wing Generating Plant 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covanta Union, LLC 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Learning Center 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE G-CNY Group LLC 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, Nine Mile Point 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manning Squires Hennig Co., Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Venture Forthe 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sevenson overall injury report 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Company 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1909 421 FTE
NAT-TCR Reynolds Enterprises, Inc. - Reynolds Construction, LLC (Harrisburg) 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Town Square Tower 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #106 (Billings, MT) 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Tenet Hialeah Hosp Evs 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Station 211 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electro-Tech Industries, Inc. 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Disposal - Stateline Hauling 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carpet Cleaning & Water Restoration 104 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.