Trash collection services · Colorado

Howard Disposal and Recycling

Canon City, CO · ~35 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard Disposal and Recycling runs at 461% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trash collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Howard Disposal and Recycling: 12.0 TCR = 461% of Trash collection services BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard Disposal and Recycling safety composite

Howard Disposal and Recycling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Howard Disposal and Recycling: 3.4 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 21.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2021

Howard Disposal and Recycling's TCR rose 4.6 from 3.4 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 21.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Canon City, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 461% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #46/51
  • PHOTO Meridian Waste Tenne…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howard Disposal and Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard Disposal and Recycling averages 12.0 TCR (461% of the Trash collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Howard Disposal and Recycling TCR series: 2017=3.4 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=17.2 · 2020=21.1 · 2021=8 · BLS 2.6

Where Howard Disposal and Recycling falls in its industry

2,322 Trash collection services establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 51 Trash collection services employers in Colorado.

Howard Disposal and Recycling (35 employees, TCR 12.0) 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 Howard Disposal and Recycling
Howard Disposal and Recycling (35 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Howard Disposal and Recycling has fewer employees than the Trash 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
2021 8.0 8.0 4 0 0
2020 21.1 17.5 5 1 0
2019 17.2 17.2 5 0 0
2018 10.3 10.3 3 0 0
2017 3.4 3.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CO · Canon City

2,322 Trash collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 39 employers in Canon City, CO · 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 Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Disposal - Norristown Hauling 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04898 - Delaware Valley South 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conwaste Mayaguez 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Platteville Dairy 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Association Headquarters 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bob McGrath Construction, LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Day Denver 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Thomas More Hospital 477 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1019 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1019 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR 620-00417 120 FTE
NAT-TCR McNaughten Pointe 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutton Trucking Wood Village Terminal 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 546147-Oly-Lacey Br 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Aacer Flooring 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE KK Way 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilite International Orion 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oro Grande 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meadville Redi-Mix Concrete Inc. 35 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.