Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills · Pennsylvania

East Penn Sanitation Inc.

Bethlehem, PA · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

East Penn Sanitation Inc. runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills workplace, earning a grade D.

East Penn Sanitation Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 197% of Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East Penn Sanitation Inc. safety composite

East Penn Sanitation Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.3

2016→2023

East Penn Sanitation Inc. injury rate improved

East Penn Sanitation Inc.'s TCR fell 12.3 from 12.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.3 · 2021=3.1 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Bethlehem, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 197% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/18
  • PHOTO Recology Hay Road
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recology Hay Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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East Penn Sanitation Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East Penn Sanitation Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (197% of the Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills BLS benchmark).

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

East Penn Sanitation Inc. TCR series: 2016=12.3 · 2021=3.1 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.6

Where East Penn Sanitation Inc. falls in its industry

288 Refuse collecting and operatin establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 18 Refuse collecting and operatin employers in Pennsylvania.

East Penn Sanitation Inc. (24 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate East Penn Sanitation Inc.
East Penn Sanitation Inc. (24 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

East Penn Sanitation Inc. has fewer employees than the Refuse collecting and operating solid wa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2016 12.3 12.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · PA · Bethlehem

288 Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 358 employers in Bethlehem, PA · 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 Recology Hay Road 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Shelby LF 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DRD LF 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apex Environmental, LLC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Avon Heights Mushrooms, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynesburg PA 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Electric Power LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 5,338 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Physician's Group 3,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Muhlenberg 2,139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4087 2,105 FTE
NAT-TCR TI Wire 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AFP Visalia 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Inland Envelope Company 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn Omaha West 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE MMP Business Associates 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creative Masonry, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Young's Plant Farm, Inc. (Farm 1) 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arthrex Trauma Inc 24 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, 2021, 2016. 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.