Garbage collection services · Illinois

Morton Grove - LRS

Morton Grove, IL · ~180 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Morton Grove - LRS runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

Morton Grove - LRS: 3.7 TCR = 143% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Morton Grove - LRS safety composite

Morton Grove - LRS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.85 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

Morton Grove - LRS: 1.3 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2020

Morton Grove - LRS's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.3 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Morton Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #44/143
  • PHOTO Allied Waste Service…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Allied Waste Services of Yuma (0.0 TCR gap)

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Morton Grove - LRS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Morton Grove - LRS averages 3.7 TCR (143% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Morton Grove - LRS TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=5 · 2018=1 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=3 · BLS 2.6

Where Morton Grove - LRS falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 143 Garbage collection services employers in Illinois.

Morton Grove - LRS (180 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 Morton Grove - LRS
Morton Grove - LRS (180 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Morton Grove - LRS has more 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
2020 3.0 1.9 8 0 0
2019 8.4 5.3 19 0 0
2018 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2017 5.0 5.0 9 0 0
2016 1.3 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IL · Morton Grove

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Morton Grove, IL · 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 Allied Waste Services of Yuma 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southland Was Systems of Georgia 3620 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MID FLORIDA MATERIALS 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Environmental Alternatives LLC 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE F.E. Moran, Inc Fire Protection of Northern Illinois 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE E&K of Chicago, Inc. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Levy Company 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur West Oil Refinery 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DCH2 636 FTE
CITY-NEAR Xylem, Inc 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Crane Morton Grove 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fareva Morton Grove Inc 313 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 1804 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2702 - Benton 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0000000026 Quickchek Food Stores 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Elkhart 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hickory Spring Plant 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSI Technology 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concordia at Sumner 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Cable 180 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.