Waste disposal landfills, nonhazardous solid · Ohio

Lorain County Landfill

Oberlin, OH · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lorain County Landfill runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Waste disposal landfills, nonhazardous solid workplace, earning a grade B.

Lorain County Landfill: 2.0 TCR = 75% of Waste disposal landfills, nonhazardous solid BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lorain County Landfill safety composite

Lorain County Landfill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Lorain County Landfill held a steady TCR band

Lorain County Landfill's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Oberlin, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/19
  • PHOTO S03941 - Temple RDF
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S03941 - Temple RDF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lorain County Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lorain County Landfill averages 2.0 TCR (75% of the Waste disposal landfills, nonhazardous solid BLS benchmark).

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

Lorain County Landfill TCR series: 2016=0 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Lorain County Landfill falls in its industry

288 Waste disposal landfills, nonh establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 19 Waste disposal landfills, nonh employers in Ohio.

Lorain County Landfill (30 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lorain County Landfill
Lorain County Landfill (30 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Lorain County Landfill has fewer employees than the Waste disposal landfills, nonhazardous s median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · OH · Oberlin

288 Waste disposal landfills, nonhazardous solid employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 20 employers in Oberlin, OH · 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 S03941 - Temple RDF 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S10037 - Orla Landfill 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04530 - Middle Peninsula Landfill 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04135 - Skyline RDF 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tuente Farms Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm 3 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 6 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canton Hatchery 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oberlin College and Conservatory 2,073 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coram Flora 988 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5309 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5309 287 FTE
NAT-TCR Mate Precision Technologies 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Meyn America LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR C A Rasmussen, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BioTek America,LLC - White Settlement,TX dba Freedom Plasma 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allen Steele Company 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sugarman of Vermont LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Ag, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas DC 30 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, 2016. 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.