Garbage collection services · Tennessee

Home Town Disposal

Memphis, TN · ~45 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Home Town Disposal runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade B.

Home Town Disposal: 1.8 TCR = 70% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Home Town Disposal safety composite

Home Town Disposal scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

Home Town Disposal held a steady TCR band

Home Town Disposal's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Memphis, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/43
  • PHOTO Harter's Quick Clean…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harter's Quick Clean up (0.0 TCR gap)

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Home Town Disposal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Home Town Disposal averages 1.8 TCR (70% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Home Town Disposal TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=5 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Home Town Disposal falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 43 Garbage collection services employers in Tennessee.

Home Town Disposal (45 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Home Town Disposal
Home Town Disposal (45 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Home Town Disposal has fewer employees than the Garbage collection services median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · TN · Memphis

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 Harter's Quick Clean up 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flowers Sanitation 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Opportunity, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3065-Malcom Ave Transfer Station 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MEC Headquarters 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Power & Lighting, LLC - 230 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hollingsworth Paving Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Asphalt Paving, LLC 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR SAO : LSM - Latrobe 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Market Basket #21 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR GTM Sportswear DBA Champion Teamwear 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington Meter Dept 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gaudelli Bros Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Natchitoches Service Center 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zero Effort Nutrition Lp 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cherry Park Plaza 45 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.