Garbage collection services · Montana

Montana Waste System 4870

Black Eagle, MT · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Montana Waste System 4870 runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade C.

Montana Waste System 4870: 2.5 TCR = 94% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Montana Waste System 4870 safety composite

Montana Waste System 4870 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

Montana Waste System 4870: 1.8 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

Montana Waste System 4870's TCR rose 3.9 from 1.8 in 2022 to 5.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Black Eagle, MT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Waste Industries Wil…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waste Industries Wilmington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Montana Waste System 4870 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Montana Waste System 4870 averages 2.5 TCR (94% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Montana Waste System 4870 TCR series: 2022=1.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Montana Waste System 4870 falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Garbage collection services employers in Montana.

Montana Waste System 4870 (50 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Montana Waste System 4870
Montana Waste System 4870 (50 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Montana Waste System 4870 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 5.6 1.9 2 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MT · Black Eagle

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 8 employers in Black Eagle, MT · 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 Waste Industries Wilmington 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04082 - Stoneville Hauling 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S02981 - WM Conroe 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03942 - Sanford Hauling 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sussex Construction Inc 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE JTL Group Inc DBA Knife River Kalispell 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 26-MT 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE DPS Electronics 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loenbro, LLC 970 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Sky Bus Lines Inc. 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain View Co-op Conrad Retail 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guy Tabacco Construction 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Glasmasters - Sweetwater TN 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LaForce - Green Bay 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Campus Green Hills OPCO LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Sonesta Chase Park Plaza 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mustang Seeds, Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE GDM Imports, Inc (DBA: McGrath Volvo Cars of Barrington) 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smith+Griffin 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petro PA/SJ - Southampton 50 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.