Garbage collection services · Illinois

Groot South

Mccook, IL · ~83 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Groot South runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade C.

Groot South: 2.9 TCR = 112% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Groot South safety composite

Groot South scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−1.9

2018→2024

Groot South injury rate improved

Groot South's TCR fell 1.9 from 2.8 in 2018 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.8 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Mccook, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 112% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #33/143
  • PHOTO West Palm Beach
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Palm Beach (0.0 TCR gap)

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Groot South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Groot South averages 2.9 TCR (112% 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 South TCR series: 2018=2.8 · 2023=5 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Groot South falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #33 safest of 143 Garbage collection services employers in Illinois.

Groot South (83 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 South
Groot South (83 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Groot South 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 5.0 5.0 5 0 0
2018 2.8 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IL · Mccook

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 37 employers in Mccook, 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 West Palm Beach 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S10271 - Augusta West Hauling 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3120-Bulldog Systems 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR RGL, Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jo-Carroll Energy - Elizabeth 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE 86 - Walsh Federal, LLC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herlihy Mid-Continent Co. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Roofing Co. 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4813-48130009-FREEMAN EXPO CHICAGO 882 FTE
CITY-NEAR 48130009-FREEMAN EXPO CHICAGO MIDWEST 567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Assemblers at McCook 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fontanini Foods 445 FTE
NAT-TCR Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Care One at Northampton 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR BorgWarner Ithaca LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpine Landscapes 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Veransa Group Inc. 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Little Rock Embassy Suites 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheffield Platers Inc 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE FirePro Tech, LLC 83 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, 2018. 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.