Garbage collection services · North Carolina

GDS Plymouth

Aulander, NC · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GDS Plymouth runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

GDS Plymouth: 6.9 TCR = 264% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GDS Plymouth safety composite

GDS Plymouth scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2017→2021

GDS Plymouth injury rate improved

GDS Plymouth's TCR fell 3.3 from 5.9 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.9 · 2018=16.3 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Aulander, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 264% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #68/87
  • PHOTO Community Waste Disp…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Community Waste Disposal (0.0 TCR gap)

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GDS Plymouth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GDS Plymouth averages 6.9 TCR (264% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

GDS Plymouth TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2018=16.3 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=2.6 · BLS 2.6

Where GDS Plymouth falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 87 Garbage collection services employers in North Carolina.

GDS Plymouth (39 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 GDS Plymouth
GDS Plymouth (39 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

GDS Plymouth has fewer employees than the Garbage 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
2021 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2020 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2018 16.3 0.0 5 0 0
2017 5.9 5.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NC · Aulander

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 3 employers in Aulander, NC · 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 Community Waste Disposal 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FW Russell and Sons Disposal, Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Waste Services of Imperial 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CR&R Incorporated - El Centro 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Louisburg 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE B & S Farming, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jeffery C Lee Farms, INC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Farms Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR REC 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR GDS Plymouth 3181 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Axel Royal TX 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Canopy of Azalea Grove 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR La Habra Convalescent Hospital 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Coast Calf Ranch, LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Indiana Metal Craft 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITW Sexton 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herr Foods Inc. 68 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metropolitan Stevedore Company - Stockton 39 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: 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.