Garbage collection services · Indiana

Himco Waste-Away Service Inc

Elkhart, IN · ~29 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Himco Waste-Away Service Inc runs at 266% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Himco Waste-Away Service Inc: 6.9 TCR = 266% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Himco Waste-Away Service Inc safety composite

Himco Waste-Away Service Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Himco Waste-Away Service Inc: 8.1 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2023

Himco Waste-Away Service Inc's TCR rose 2.0 from 8.1 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Elkhart, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 266% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #46/71
  • PHOTO AW of Memphis
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AW of Memphis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Himco Waste-Away Service Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Himco Waste-Away Service Inc averages 6.9 TCR (266% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Himco Waste-Away Service Inc TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=10.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Himco Waste-Away Service Inc falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 71 Garbage collection services employers in Indiana.

Himco Waste-Away Service Inc (29 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 Himco Waste-Away Service Inc
Himco Waste-Away Service Inc (29 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Himco Waste-Away Service Inc 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
2023 10.1 6.7 3 0 0
2022 7.2 2.4 3 0 0
2021 7.6 2.5 3 0 0
2020 10.6 3.5 2 1 0
2019 5.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 6.1 3.1 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IN · Elkhart

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, IN · 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 AW of Memphis 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Waste Services of North America, LLC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GFL Environmental Cheboygan Hauling and Transfer Station 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GFL Environmental Cadillac Hauling 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Calf Land LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE LeMaster Steel Erectors Inc. - Noblesville 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE 640-NiSource-Kokomo IN-Home Ave 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Clarksville 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR Everbrite, LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR La Jolla St Base - Bld: 0385 - 15 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital Mechanical 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PJR & Associates, Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE R.J. Williams, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mike Cassara Masonry, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Offices 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fridley- Baldwin Supply Co. 29 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.