Garbage collection services · North Carolina

Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling

Goldston, NC · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling: 3.5 TCR = 133% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling safety composite

Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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 North Carolina - Goldston Hauling: 5.0 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2024

Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling's TCR rose 0.4 from 5.0 in 2022 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Goldston, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 133% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #36/87
  • PHOTO RE1
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RE1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling averages 3.5 TCR (133% 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 North Carolina - Goldston Hauling TCR series: 2022=5 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 2.6

Where Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 87 Garbage collection services employers in North Carolina.

Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling (21 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 North Carolina - Goldston Hauling
Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling (21 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Meridian Waste North Carolina - Goldston Hauling 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 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NC · Goldston

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 RE1 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services of Northern Utah 4493 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northside Hauling 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bliss Environmental Service, Inc. 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Timothy Yarbrough 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty NC Breeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCJA1-SEL-JASON 1' 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunburst Trout Farms 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Ocado Solutions USA Aurora 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin Luther College 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Everidge, LLC Covesville 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Surgery Center of Lancaster 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Maintenance Garage 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blastcrete Equipment Company LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE MS192 Taylorsville Studmill 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE TXD095 21 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.