Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Gordon Waste Company

York, PA · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gordon Waste Company runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Gordon Waste Company: 4.0 TCR = 181% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gordon Waste Company safety composite

Gordon Waste Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Gordon Waste Company: 3.2 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Gordon Waste Company's TCR rose 3.0 from 3.2 in 2020 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · York, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #23/62
  • PHOTO West Virginia Cashin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Virginia Cashin Recyclables, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gordon Waste Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gordon Waste Company averages 4.0 TCR (181% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Gordon Waste Company TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=6.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Gordon Waste Company falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 62 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Pennsylvania.

Gordon Waste Company (33 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Gordon Waste Company
Gordon Waste Company (33 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Gordon Waste Company has fewer employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 6.2 3.1 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.5 3.2 2 0 0
2020 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · PA · York

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 496 employers in York, PA · 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 West Virginia Cashin Recyclables, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PADNOS 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liverpool Location 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferrous Miami 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colver Power Project 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oil City 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norristown Operations 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR WellSpan York Hospital 4,886 FTE
CITY-NEAR WellSpan Medical Group 4,293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wellspan Health 2,591 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx Supply Chain (Target York) 1,875 FTE
NAT-TCR AWS Danville 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Virginia Cashin Recyclables, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairview West Park Ctr 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR High School 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Beehive Moving, LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Wagon Pizza Company 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capital Pest Services, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Park at Surprise 33 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.