Garbage collection services · Michigan

GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights

Sterling Heights, MI · ~475 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights: 6.2 TCR = 238% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights safety composite

GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−4.6

2019→2020

GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights injury rate improved

GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights's TCR fell 4.6 from 8.5 in 2019 to 3.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.5 · 2020=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Sterling Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 238% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #48/80
  • PHOTO S03144 - WM of Saras…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~475 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S03144 - WM of Sarasota County (0.0 TCR gap)

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GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights averages 6.2 TCR (238% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights TCR series: 2019=8.5 · 2020=3.9 · BLS 2.6

Where GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #48 safest of 80 Garbage collection services employers in Michigan.

GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights (475 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights
GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights (475 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Sterling Heights has more 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
2020 3.9 1.8 17 0 0
2019 8.5 7.8 35 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MI · Sterling Heights

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 195 employers in Sterling Heights, 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 S03144 - WM of Sarasota County 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S10434 - Lee County Hauling 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GFL Solid Waste Midwest LLC- Fort Atkinson HC 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Downtown Jackson 475 FTE
STATE-SIZE SH Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion 475 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2079 474 FTE
STATE-SIZE 158 - Knapp's Corner GR 476 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Heights Assembly Plant 5,783 FTE
CITY-NEAR STERLING PLNT 2,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Stamping Plant 2,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conti, LLC 1,892 FTE
NAT-TCR Stilwell Nursing Home 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1569 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MCS - Redlands CA 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2794 - Schendel Services - Kansas City Ks 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Plant 475 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patheon Softgels Inc 475 FTE
NAT-SIZE HollyFrontier El Dorado Refining LLC 475 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abbvie Pharmaceutical LTD 475 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.