Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid · Illinois

Flowers Sanitation

Virden, IL · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flowers Sanitation runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid workplace, earning a grade B.

Flowers Sanitation: 1.8 TCR = 70% of Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flowers Sanitation safety composite

Flowers Sanitation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Flowers Sanitation: 0.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2022

Flowers Sanitation's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 3.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Virden, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 70% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #16/143
  • PHOTO Harter's Quick Clean…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harter's Quick Clean up (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flowers Sanitation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flowers Sanitation averages 1.8 TCR (70% of the Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid BLS benchmark).

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

Flowers Sanitation TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=3.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Flowers Sanitation falls in its industry

2,322 Waste collection services, non establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #16 safest of 143 Waste collection services, non employers in Illinois.

Flowers Sanitation (25 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Flowers Sanitation
Flowers Sanitation (25 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Flowers Sanitation has fewer employees than the Waste collection services, nonhazardous median and a lower 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 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IL · Virden

2,322 Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 10 employers in Virden, 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 Harter's Quick Clean up 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home Town Disposal 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Opportunity, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3065-Malcom Ave Transfer Station 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Emerald Mound Lebanon Fire Department 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steve Piper and Sons, Inc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Meter Services North 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Double Black Diamond Solar 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunrise Care and Rehabilitation 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR TS 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virden Fire Deptartment 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Butler Asphalt LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleveland Wire Cloth & Mfg Co 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Masonite Corp. - Stanley 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Spronk Brothers III 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Water Department 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative Brownton Campus 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yarde Metals Inc, North Carolina 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE S W Allen Construction Inc 25 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, 2021. 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.