Solid Waste Collection · Texas
Hill Country Waste Solutions
Spring Branch, TX · ~44 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 8.9
- Avg TCR
- 2.6
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Hill Country Waste Solutions runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Solid Waste Collection workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 8.9
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2.6
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 20
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Hill Country Waste Solutions's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Hill Country Waste Solutions's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.6 industry benchmark.
Where Hill Country Waste Solutions falls in its industry
2,506 Solid Waste Collection establishmentsSafer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.
Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #122 safest of 135 Solid Waste Collection employers in Texas.
Hill Country Waste Solutions has an average TCR of 8.9, which is 341% of the industry average (2.6) for Solid Waste Collection. This is significantly worse than average.
The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.
Trend analysis for Hill Country Waste Solutions
Between 2020 and 2023, Hill Country Waste Solutions's Total Case Rate worsened from 7.6 to 12.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 60% increase across 3 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 2.2, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 13.6, a spread of 11.4 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 4 reporting years, Hill Country Waste Solutions recorded 20 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 4-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Hill Country Waste Solutions's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 562111 - Solid Waste Collection.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
6 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 132,177 hours worked = 9.08 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hill Country Waste Solutions (this establishment) | 8.86 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg |
| Garbage collection services industry avg | 2.60 | BLS IIF, NAICS 562111 |
| Texas state avg (all industries) | 3.73 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Hill Country Waste Solutions to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2023: 8 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 9 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12.1 | 9.1 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 13.6 | 10.6 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Hill Country Waste Solutions's reported OSHA injury record versus its Solid Waste Collection peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 341% of the Solid Waste Collection benchmark, Hill Country Waste Solutions reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Solid Waste Collection sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.