Nonhazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities (except combustors, incinerators, landfills, sewer systems, sewage treatment facilities) · Ohio

Environmental Specialists, Inc.

Youngstown, OH · ~48 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Environmental Specialists, Inc. runs at 209% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nonhazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities (except combustors, incinerators, landfills, sewer systems, sewage treatment facilities) workplace, earning a grade F.

Environmental Specialists, Inc.: 5.4 TCR = 209% of Nonhazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities (except combustors, incinerators, landfills, sewer systems, sewage treatment facilities) BLS 2.6 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Environmental Specialists, Inc. safety composite

Environmental Specialists, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Environmental Specialists, Inc.: 3.3 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.12× in 2024

Environmental Specialists, Inc.'s TCR rose 8.2 from 3.3 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562219 · Youngstown, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 209% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Stericycle - Farming…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stericycle - Farmingdale,NY (0.1 TCR gap)

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Environmental Specialists, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Environmental Specialists, Inc. averages 5.4 TCR (209% of the Nonhazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities (except combustors, incinerators, landfills, sewer systems, sewage treatment facilities) BLS benchmark).

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

Environmental Specialists, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=14.9 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=11.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Environmental Specialists, Inc. falls in its industry

171 Nonhazardous waste treatment a establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Nonhazardous waste treatment a employers in Ohio.

Environmental Specialists, Inc. (48 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Environmental Specialists, Inc.
Environmental Specialists, Inc. (48 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Environmental Specialists, Inc. has more employees than the Nonhazardous waste treatment and disposa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2024 11.5 11.5 6 0 0
2023 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.7 1.9 2 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 6.2 4.1 3 0 0
2019 5.4 1.8 3 0 0
2018 14.9 5.6 8 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.3 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562219 · OH · Youngstown

171 Nonhazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities (except combustors, incinerators, landfills, sewer systems, sewage treatment facilities) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 276 employers in Youngstown, OH · 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 Stericycle - Farmingdale,NY 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LRS - Woodstock 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lambland Inc dba A-1 Organics 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle - Jacksonville,FL-5169 West 12th 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ohio Heavy Equipment Leasing, LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler Rural Electric Cooperative 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Dayton West 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Bronco Services, Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Elizabeth Health Center 2,702 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Elizabeth Health Hospital 2,679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ohio Edison Company 832 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vallourec Star, LP 681 FTE
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #162 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 239/ORD 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Technic Equipment Division 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE CMC Recycling Tulsa 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Senior Living at Farnham 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver City Aluminum 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 833 Northern Blvd 48 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.