Garbage collection services · Minnesota

Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection

Proctor, MN · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection: 5.2 TCR = 201% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection safety composite

Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−15.7

2016→2018

Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection injury rate improved

Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection's TCR fell 15.7 from 15.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 15.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=15.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 201% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/60
  • PHOTO S05886 - Waters Haul…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S05886 - Waters Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection averages 5.2 TCR (201% 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/DBJ Waste Collection TCR series: 2016=15.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #30 safest of 60 Garbage collection services employers in Minnesota.

Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection (34 employees, TCR 5.2) 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/DBJ Waste Collection
Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection (34 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 15.7 9.4 5 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 S05886 - Waters Hauling 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5325-Mountain View Waste 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Round Rock Hauling 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Industries LLC 6 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE KBQ, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forsman Farms SH 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klaphake Feed Mill Inc. 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Proctor Senior High 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bayview School 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartel's Disposal 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartel's Disposal Waste Collection 37 FTE
NAT-TCR Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ottawa 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Arlington) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AMEREN MISSOURI - Geraldine District 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Charm Saw Mill & Yoder Logistics 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph's Retirement Community 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Troy-AL 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 21121 Overland Park DC 34 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, 2017, 2016. 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.