Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local · New Jersey

Direct Waste Services

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Newark, NJ · ~97 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.5
Avg TCR: 2.6
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Direct Waste Services runs at 366% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Direct Waste Services: 9.5 TCR = 366% of Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Direct Waste Services safety composite

Direct Waste Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Direct Waste Services: 3.5 → 15.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2022

Direct Waste Services's TCR rose 12.0 from 3.5 in 2020 to 15.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Newark, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 366% of ind

DART 6.5 DART
RANK #51/70
PHOTO Carmen Barbato, Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 22 inj
SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carmen Barbato, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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WASTE RESOURCE

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What this shows Direct Waste Services averages 9.5 TCR (366% of the Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local BLS benchmark).

Direct Waste Services TCR series: 2020=3.5 · 2022=15.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Direct Waste Services falls in its industry

2,322 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous so establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 70 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous so employers in New Jersey.

Direct Waste Services (97 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Direct Waste Services has more employees than the Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) 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
2022	15.5	6.5	19	0	0
2020	3.5	2.3	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NJ · Newark

2,322 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 356 employers in Newark, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Carmen Barbato, Inc.	HILLSDALE, NY	9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bernardsville Hauling	BERNARDSVILLE, NJ	9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Conwaste Canovanas	GURABO, PR	9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	WASTE RESOURCES, INC	LOS ANGELES, CA	9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	NJ Haworth	HAWORTH	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Donnelly Industries Inc.	WAYNE	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Infrastructure Repair Service	LINCOLN PARK	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mile Square Roofing Co,. Inc.	STANHOPE	97 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EWR EWR	Newark	13,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EWR - Airport United Airlines Offices	Newark	13,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6925-EWR	Newark	11,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EWRPW9829 EWR - NON AA PAX SER	Newark	4,772 FTE
NAT-TCR	Snell Farm	Bath, NY	9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Premium Food & Beverage - SCPFB	Sioux City, IA	9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Stoneys Sand & Gravel, LLC	Lemoore, CA	9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	6458-ZNIN	Zionsville, IN	9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Johnson & Quin541860	Niles, IL	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Colonial Millworks, Ltd.	Beverly, WV	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pipeline Systems Inc.	Meadville, PA	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nemco Food Equipment	Hicksville, OH	97 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: 2022, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.