Material Recovery Facility · Michigan

GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility

Traverse City, MI · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Material Recovery Facility workplace, earning a grade C.

GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility: 2.5 TCR = 96% of Material Recovery Facility BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility safety composite

GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2022→2024

GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility injury rate improved

GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility's TCR fell 2.2 from 2.2 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.2 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Buffalo MRF
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Buffalo MRF (0.0 TCR gap)

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GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility averages 2.5 TCR (96% 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 Traverse City Material Recovery Facility TCR series: 2022=2.2 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.6

Where GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility falls in its industry

422 Material Recovery Facility establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #3 safest of 9 Material Recovery Facility employers in Michigan.

GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility (30 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Traverse City Material Recovery Facility
GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility (30 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

GFL Environmental Traverse City Material Recovery Facility 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 5.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · MI · Traverse City

422 Material Recovery Facility employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 197 employers in Traverse 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 Buffalo MRF 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Casella recycling resourses 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compupoint USA LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zwicky Processing and Recycling Inc 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kitchen Farms, Inc. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Revolution Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE TES Filer City Station 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Fermi II Nuclear Power Plant Project 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Medical Center 3,845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Healthcare 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 569 FTE
NAT-TCR Xanitos EVS at St Marys Medical Center 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR U.S. Cargo Systems 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Faurecia Automotive Seating 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wright Tree Service, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Murray 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Water Works Industrial Services, LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE PEC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE V&S Schuler Engineering INC - Burton 30 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.