Dump trucking of rubble or brush with collection or disposal · North Carolina

Mercado's Dumpster Service

Charlotte, NC · ~16 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercado's Dumpster Service runs at 343% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dump trucking of rubble or brush with collection or disposal workplace, earning a grade F.

Mercado's Dumpster Service: 8.9 TCR = 343% of Dump trucking of rubble or brush with collection or disposal BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercado's Dumpster Service safety composite

Mercado's Dumpster Service scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Mercado's Dumpster Service: 3.1 → 14.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Mercado's Dumpster Service's TCR rose 11.7 from 3.1 in 2022 to 14.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562119 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 343% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P16
  • PHOTO S.E.G. TRUCKING PITT…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S.E.G. TRUCKING PITTSBURG (0.2 TCR gap)

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Mercado's Dumpster Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercado's Dumpster Service averages 8.9 TCR (343% of the Dump trucking of rubble or brush with collection or disposal BLS benchmark).

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

Mercado's Dumpster Service TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=14.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Mercado's Dumpster Service falls in its industry

57 Dump trucking of rubble or bru establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Mercado's Dumpster Service (16 employees, TCR 8.9) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Mercado's Dumpster Service
Mercado's Dumpster Service (16 employees, TCR 8.9) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Mercado's Dumpster Service has fewer employees than the Dump trucking of rubble or brush with co median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 14.8 0.0 3 0 0
2022 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562119 · NC · Charlotte

57 Dump trucking of rubble or brush with collection or disposal employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR S.E.G. TRUCKING PITTSBURG 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hilton Trucking & Supply Co. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.E.G. TRUCKING CONCORD 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frontier Waste Solutions - Justin 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics NC Field Off 005-0124, 25, 27, 33 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barnhardt Manufacturing Co Corp Kinston NC 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alliance Residential Charlotte 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Farming2 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Springdale 275 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Grove of Berwyn 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Eclipse Advantage - HDJIL - Joliet, IL 8.9 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.