Garbage collection services · Illinois

Dekalb County Recycling Systems

Cortland, IL · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dekalb County Recycling Systems runs at 320% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Dekalb County Recycling Systems: 8.3 TCR = 320% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dekalb County Recycling Systems safety composite

Dekalb County Recycling Systems scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Dekalb County Recycling Systems: 5.7 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2020

Dekalb County Recycling Systems's TCR rose 3.8 from 5.7 in 2018 to 9.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Cortland, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 320% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #108/143
  • PHOTO EWASTE+ Victor NY
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EWASTE+ Victor NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dekalb County Recycling Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dekalb County Recycling Systems averages 8.3 TCR (320% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Dekalb County Recycling Systems TCR series: 2018=5.7 · 2019=9.9 · 2020=9.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Dekalb County Recycling Systems falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #108 safest of 143 Garbage collection services employers in Illinois.

Dekalb County Recycling Systems (37 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Dekalb County Recycling Systems
Dekalb County Recycling Systems (37 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Dekalb County Recycling Systems has fewer employees than the Garbage collection services median and a higher 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
2020 9.5 9.5 3 0 0
2019 9.9 2.5 4 0 0
2018 5.7 5.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IL · Cortland

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 7 employers in Cortland, IL · 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 EWASTE+ Victor NY 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huntington Beach Hauling 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 605 - Jackson 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amwaste LaGrange 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Office 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR NPL Great Lakes LLC - Illinois 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baeza Rapid Delivery Service LLC 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Truss Company - Cortland 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Laurels of Carson City 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Manufacturing 812 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Santa Rosa - Recreation & Parks Department 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE DCVA 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parks & Recreation - Parks Maintenance Div 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andalusia Plant 37 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.