Sanitary landfills · Arizona

Glendale Municipal Landfill

Glendale, AZ · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Glendale Municipal Landfill runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sanitary landfills workplace, earning a grade D.

Glendale Municipal Landfill: 4.5 TCR = 173% of Sanitary landfills BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Glendale Municipal Landfill safety composite

Glendale Municipal Landfill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−0.4

2016→2018

Glendale Municipal Landfill injury rate improved

Glendale Municipal Landfill's TCR fell 0.4 from 4.7 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2018=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Glendale, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 173% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO S04068 - Atascocita …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S04068 - Atascocita Landfill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Glendale Municipal Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Glendale Municipal Landfill averages 4.5 TCR (173% of the Sanitary landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Glendale Municipal Landfill TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2018=4.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Glendale Municipal Landfill falls in its industry

288 Sanitary landfills establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Sanitary landfills employers in Arizona.

Glendale Municipal Landfill (22 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Glendale Municipal Landfill
Glendale Municipal Landfill (22 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Glendale Municipal Landfill has fewer employees than the Sanitary landfills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2018 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2016 4.7 4.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · AZ · Glendale

288 Sanitary landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 313 employers in Glendale, AZ · 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 S04068 - Atascocita Landfill 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04164 - Antelope Valley Hauling 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apache Junction Landfill Corp. 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lehi Farm 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trulieve - El Mirage 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanfield Farm 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kammann & Son Farms LLC 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR 730 ABRAZO ARROWHEAD CAMPUS 1,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glendale Elementary School District 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-730 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-515 910 FTE
NAT-TCR R4 - Big Flats 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Village - Normal 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rome Business Office - 800 Broad St. Rome 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Global Services Organization : Waycross, GA - CSX 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oldcastle OPI - HoustonDC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hot Springs Office AKK7 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMIU 22 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.