Garbage collection services · Illinois

Groot East

Elk Grove, IL · ~217 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Groot East runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade B.

Groot East: 1.5 TCR = 57% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Groot East safety composite

Groot East scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−0.8

2023→2024

Groot East injury rate improved

Groot East's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.9 in 2023 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.9 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Elk Grove, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #12/143
  • PHOTO City Carting Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~217 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City Carting Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Groot East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Groot East averages 1.5 TCR (57% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Groot East TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Groot East falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 143 Garbage collection services employers in Illinois.

Groot East (217 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Groot East
Groot East (217 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Groot East has more employees than the Garbage collection services median and a lower 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
2024 1.1 0.7 3 0 0
2023 1.9 1.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IL · Elk Grove

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 24 employers in Elk Grove, IL · 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 City Carting Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MRR - Hartford 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GDS Plymouth 3181 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S02968 - Fresno Hauling and Transfer Station 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crystal Lake 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE F.E. Moran, Inc Special Hazard Systems 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stevenson Crane Service Inc. 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carl Buddig & Company-15600 Wentowrth 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 23003 989 FTE
CITY-NEAR MC Machinery Systems, Inc. Headquarters 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR FPM Heat Treating Elk Grove 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Panalpina Chicago 140 FTE
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Plainview 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Continental Electric Company 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR New Providence Women's Shelter 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Martinsville Plant 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Careone at Moorestown 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fives Intralogistics Corp. 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aceco LLC 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Grand Rapids 217 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. 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.