Garbage collection services · Minnesota

Hartel's Disposal

Proctor, MN · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hartel's Disposal runs at 648% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Hartel's Disposal: 16.8 TCR = 648% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hartel's Disposal safety composite

Hartel's Disposal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−13.6

2022→2024

Hartel's Disposal injury rate improved

Hartel's Disposal's TCR fell 13.6 from 21.4 in 2022 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=21.4 · 2023=21.4 · 2024=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Proctor, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 648% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #58/60
  • PHOTO Waste Pro 106 - Palm…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waste Pro 106 - Palm Coast (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hartel's Disposal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hartel's Disposal averages 16.8 TCR (648% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Hartel's Disposal TCR series: 2022=21.4 · 2023=21.4 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Hartel's Disposal falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 60 Garbage collection services employers in Minnesota.

Hartel's Disposal (37 employees, TCR 16.8) 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 Hartel's Disposal
Hartel's Disposal (37 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Hartel's Disposal has fewer 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
2024 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2023 21.4 10.7 6 2 0
2022 21.4 16.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MN · Proctor

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 13 employers in Proctor, MN · 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 Waste Pro 106 - Palm Coast 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LFUCG - Division of Waste Management 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howie's Enterprises LLC 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strategic Sanitation Services, Inc. 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Betaseed Inc - Shakopee 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pals 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Support 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Rapids Public Utilities Commission 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Proctor Senior High 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bayview School 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartel's Disposal Waste Collection 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Bridesburg Foundry Company 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1-888-4-Abatement, Inc. 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D1 Bishop Ford Yard 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0451 San Antonio 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Electrical and Motor Controls, LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Montgomery 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bornor Restoration Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salisbury 37 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, 2022. 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.