Garbage collection services · Florida

Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling

Jacksonville, FL · ~139 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling: 6.2 TCR = 238% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling safety composite

Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling: 4.8 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling's TCR rose 0.8 from 4.8 in 2022 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Jacksonville, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 238% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #113/155
  • PHOTO S03144 - WM of Saras…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S03144 - WM of Sarasota County (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling averages 6.2 TCR (238% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling TCR series: 2022=4.8 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #113 safest of 155 Garbage collection services employers in Florida.

Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling (139 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling
Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling (139 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Meridian Waste Florida, LLC - Jacksonville Hauling has more employees than the Garbage 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
2024 5.6 5.6 8 0 0
2023 8.3 8.3 11 0 0
2022 4.8 4.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · FL · Jacksonville

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 1,776 employers in Jacksonville, 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 S03144 - WM of Sarasota County 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S10434 - Lee County Hauling 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GFL Solid Waste Midwest LLC- Fort Atkinson HC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Pro 611 - Jonesboro 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rouge River Farms 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE TECO Peoples Gas - Corporate Office 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Moriarty & Associates 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boys Electrical Contractors LLC 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR UF HEALTH JACKSONVILLE 4,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Jacksonville (Clinic) 4,567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health System Jacksonville Baptist Medical Center 4,199 FTE
CITY-NEAR FLJAC - JACKSONVILLE 4,193 FTE
NAT-TCR The Resource Center - Busti 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeline 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ClearSky Rehabilitation Hospital of Rio Rancho 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Northridge Store 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10780 Glover Park 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Unmc Clinics 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Dallas Convention Center 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glazers Beer And Beverage Odessa 139 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.