Material Recovery Facility · Michigan

GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF

Pontiac, MI · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Material Recovery Facility workplace, earning a grade C.

GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF: 2.1 TCR = 81% of Material Recovery Facility BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF safety composite

GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Pontiac MRF: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Pontiac, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 81% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Tri Rinse - Saint Lo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tri Rinse - Saint Louis (0.0 TCR gap)

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GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF averages 2.1 TCR (81% of the Material Recovery Facility BLS benchmark).

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

GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 2.6

Where GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF falls in its industry

422 Material Recovery Facility establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Material Recovery Facility employers in Michigan.

GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF (29 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF
GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF (29 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

GFL Environmental Pontiac MRF has fewer employees than the Material Recovery Facility median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · MI · Pontiac

422 Material Recovery Facility employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 95 employers in Pontiac, 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 Tri Rinse - Saint Louis 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tampa Recycle 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LL&S 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIVER RECYCLING, LLC DBA SAN ANTONIO RECYCLING 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (IN) 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Packing Co. Hart 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riveridge Cider 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Covert Generating Company 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DET3 2,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Powertrain Headquaters 2,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital SJMHS MI 2,521 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST JOSEPH MERCY OAKLAND 1,290 FTE
NAT-TCR Avancez, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HomeWorld Pearlridge 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nation Waste, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Steel Forgings INC. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Universal Technologies, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joint Sewer Agency 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waste Path Services, LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jay's Electric, Inc. 29 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.