Garbage collection services · Florida

Lake County

Tavares, FL · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake County runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

Lake County: 4.0 TCR = 154% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake County safety composite

Lake County scores strongest on dart rate (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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Lake County: 3.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Lake County's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.0 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Tavares, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 154% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #71/155
  • PHOTO Selective Hauling LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Selective Hauling LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake County averages 4.0 TCR (154% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Lake County TCR series: 2022=3 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Lake County falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 155 Garbage collection services employers in Florida.

Lake County (37 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Lake County
Lake County (37 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Lake County 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
2024 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.7 2.9 2 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · FL · Tavares

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 28 employers in Tavares, FL · 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 Selective Hauling LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03327 - Phoenix Hauling South 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CRC of Guaynabo 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S10289 - Valdosta Hauling 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE TransGro 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Packinghouse 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Park Service Center 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gladiolus Service Center 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Waterman 1,845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Florida Hospital Waterman 1,678 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tavares Main Center 837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burford's Tree LLC - 344 226 FTE
NAT-TCR Dfa-Cdl-Bridgeton Nj-Warehouse 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TMX2134 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 65X2 - EAN Holdings, LLC South Texas Division 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR OH067 Circleville Container 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Embassy Suites - El Paso 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solers-PI 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Casper 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenmart of Nevada NLV, LLC 37 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.