Trash collection services · Kansas

Howie's Enterprises LLC

Manhattan, KS · ~28 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howie's Enterprises LLC runs at 645% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trash collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Howie's Enterprises LLC: 16.8 TCR = 645% of Trash collection services BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howie's Enterprises LLC safety composite

Howie's Enterprises LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.28 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2016→2023

Howie's Enterprises LLC injury rate improved

Howie's Enterprises LLC's TCR fell 1.8 from 20.4 in 2016 to 18.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 27.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=20.4 · 2018=19.6 · 2019=27.2 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=13.1 · 2023=18.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Manhattan, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 645% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #21/21
  • PHOTO LFUCG - Division of …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LFUCG - Division of Waste Management (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howie's Enterprises LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howie's Enterprises LLC averages 16.8 TCR (645% of the Trash collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Howie's Enterprises LLC TCR series: 2016=20.4 · 2018=19.6 · 2019=27.2 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=13.1 · 2023=18.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Howie's Enterprises LLC falls in its industry

2,322 Trash collection services establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 21 Trash collection services employers in Kansas.

Howie's Enterprises LLC (28 employees, TCR 16.8) 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 Howie's Enterprises LLC
Howie's Enterprises LLC (28 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Howie's Enterprises LLC 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
2023 18.6 9.3 8 0 0
2022 13.1 0.0 5 0 0
2021 8.8 4.4 4 0 0
2020 9.8 2.8 6 1 0
2019 27.2 15.5 6 1 0
2018 19.6 15.7 5 0 0
2016 20.4 4.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · KS · Manhattan

2,322 Trash collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 83 employers in Manhattan, KS · 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 LFUCG - Division of Waste Management 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Area - Morton 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conwaste Recogido Desperdicios Solidos Carolina 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartel's Disposal 16.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brookover Ranch Feed Yard 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Satanta Farms North #2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hefier Source, LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookover Feed Yard Scott City 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Manhattan 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR GTM Sportswear 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 35 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR KSWIC017 ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI MANHATTAN 461 FTE
NAT-TCR Buffalo Engine Components, Inc. 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire #8 15 W. 1300 So. 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-AA-JAX-JACKSONVILLE-JAX-TRML 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZPMB 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dekko - North Webster 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Helpers Care, Inc. dba Mosaic - Flackville Road IRA 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huckleberry's #638 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indoor Air Professionals Inc. Headquarters- Lancaster, NY 28 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, 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.