Garbage collection services · Tennessee

Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC

Knoxville, TN · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC runs at 460% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC: 12.0 TCR = 460% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC safety composite

Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.3

2022→2024

Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC injury rate improved

Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC's TCR fell 8.3 from 19.8 in 2022 to 11.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 19.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=19.8 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=11.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 460% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #40/43
  • PHOTO Advanced Disposal - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Disposal - Norristown Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC averages 12.0 TCR (460% 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 Tennessee, LLC TCR series: 2022=19.8 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=11.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 43 Garbage collection services employers in Tennessee.

Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC (29 employees, TCR 12.0) 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 Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC
Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC (29 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Meridian Waste Tennessee, LLC has fewer 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 11.5 11.5 4 0 0
2023 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 19.8 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · TN · Knoxville

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, TN · 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 Advanced Disposal - Norristown Hauling 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard Disposal and Recycling 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04898 - Delaware Valley South 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conwaste Mayaguez 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tosh Pork Crutchfield 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynes Fayetteville 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Brookfield Smoky Mountain Hydro 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Carthage 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR JKB Corporation 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgewood Memory Care 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oakmont of Torrance 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Snohomish County 911 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amick Farms, LLC MS Hatchery 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tecumseh 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMT Harlingen 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rcpm LLC. 29 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.