Solid Waste Collection · Michigan

GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling

Brown City, MI · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling runs at 298% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Solid Waste Collection workplace, earning a grade F.

GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling: 7.8 TCR = 298% of Solid Waste Collection BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling safety composite

GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling: 3.2 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2024

GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling's TCR rose 2.9 from 3.2 in 2022 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Brown City, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 298% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #60/80
  • PHOTO Pine Tree Waste Fai…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pine Tree Waste Fairfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling averages 7.8 TCR (298% of the Solid Waste Collection BLS benchmark).

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

GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling TCR series: 2022=3.2 · 2023=14 · 2024=6 · BLS 2.6

Where GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling falls in its industry

2,322 Solid Waste Collection establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 80 Solid Waste Collection employers in Michigan.

GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling (24 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling
GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling (24 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling has fewer employees than the Solid Waste Collection 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
2024 6.0 3.0 2 0 0
2023 14.0 11.2 5 0 0
2022 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MI · Brown City

2,322 Solid Waste Collection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 7 employers in Brown City, MI · 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 Pine Tree Waste Fairfield 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04251 - Harrisonburg Hauling 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Pro 100 - Orlando 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Way Disposal 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medina Dairy, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sturgis 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CE Innovation Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Filtration and Meter Shop 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Llink Technologies 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ben's Supercenter Inc 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ben's Supercenter Cass City LLC 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR 70517 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - SOR3 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Norfolk (18th Street) 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lancaster Oh - 3234 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheltair Aviation LAL 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Whiteland Hauling 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gemini Group Tri-R Dies, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Express Burlington 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enviva Port of Wilmington 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.