Refuse collection services · Kentucky

Garrard County

Lancaster, KY · ~25 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Garrard County runs at 433% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refuse collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Garrard County: 11.3 TCR = 433% of Refuse collection services BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garrard County safety composite

Garrard County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Garrard County: 10.4 → 22.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 22.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.02× in 2023

Garrard County's TCR rose 12.3 from 10.4 in 2019 to 22.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Lancaster, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 433% of ind

  • DART 22.8 DART
  • RANK #41/45
  • PHOTO Stericycle - N.Salt …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stericycle - N.Salt Lake,UT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Garrard County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Garrard County averages 11.3 TCR (433% of the Refuse collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Garrard County TCR series: 2019=10.4 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=11.7 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=22.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Garrard County falls in its industry

2,322 Refuse collection services establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 45 Refuse collection services employers in Kentucky.

Garrard County (25 employees, TCR 11.3) 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 Garrard County
Garrard County (25 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Garrard County has fewer employees than the Refuse 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
2023 22.8 22.8 8 0 0
2022 8.4 8.4 3 0 0
2021 11.7 7.8 3 0 0
2020 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2019 10.4 7.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · KY · Lancaster

2,322 Refuse collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 8 employers in Lancaster, KY · 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 - N.Salt Lake,UT 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03934 - WI Germantown 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services Chicago Heights 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walters Recycling and Refuse 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Murdock Farms Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lane's End Farm Oak Tree Division 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henderson Municipal Gas 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wescott Construction 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Landmark of Lancaster Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allison Abrasives , Inc. 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR LANCASTER_1369786 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Impullitti Landscaping 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Davidson'S Organic Tea 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Metal Recycling Becker 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Franciscan Care Center 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Scott Smith & Son 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Surgery Center 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE TownePlace Suites Springfield 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE McMillan Security Systems 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.