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
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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.

Hill Country Waste Solutions: 8.9 TCR = 341% of Solid Waste Collection BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hill Country Waste Solutions safety composite

Hill Country Waste Solutions scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hill Country Waste Solutions: 7.6 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2023

Hill Country Waste Solutions's TCR rose 4.5 from 7.6 in 2020 to 12.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Spring Branch, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 341% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #104/117
  • PHOTO EJ Harrison & Sons -…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EJ Harrison & Sons - Lirio (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hill Country Waste Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hill Country Waste Solutions averages 8.9 TCR (341% of the Solid Waste Collection BLS benchmark).

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

Hill Country Waste Solutions TCR series: 2020=7.6 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=13.6 · 2023=12.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Hill Country Waste Solutions falls in its industry

2,322 Solid Waste Collection establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 117 Solid Waste Collection employers in Texas.

Hill Country Waste Solutions (44 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 Hill Country Waste Solutions
Hill Country Waste Solutions (44 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Hill Country Waste Solutions has fewer employees than the Solid Waste Collection 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
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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · TX · Spring Branch

2,322 Solid Waste Collection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 10 employers in Spring Branch, TX · 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 EJ Harrison & Sons - Lirio 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norwalk Hauling 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services Of Tenleytown 4686 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stamford Drivers 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva - Lubbock Research 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WRANGLER FEED YARD 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Devon Energy Corporation - Cresson 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Driver Directional, Inc. 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3056 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3056 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ripple Ranch 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Physicians Premier Bulverde 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilsonville Store 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Stop & Shop 0443 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Poway RHF Housing Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Mary's Hospital 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Regatta Tropicals Ltd 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walschon Fire Protection, Inc 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calva Purina Milk Replacer Feed Mill 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doron Precision Systems, Inc. 44 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.