Sanitary landfills · Indiana

Newton County Development Landfill

Brook, IN · ~52 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newton County Development Landfill runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sanitary landfills workplace, earning a grade A.

Newton County Development Landfill: 0.5 TCR = 20% of Sanitary landfills BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newton County Development Landfill safety composite

Newton County Development Landfill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Newton County Development Landfill held a steady TCR band

Newton County Development Landfill's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Brook, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO S04521 - Covel Garde…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S04521 - Covel Gardens RDF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newton County Development Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newton County Development Landfill averages 0.5 TCR (20% of the Sanitary landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Newton County Development Landfill TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Newton County Development Landfill falls in its industry

288 Sanitary landfills establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Sanitary landfills employers in Indiana.

Newton County Development Landfill (52 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Newton County Development Landfill
Newton County Development Landfill (52 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Newton County Development Landfill has more employees than the Sanitary landfills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · IN · Brook

288 Sanitary landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 4 employers in Brook, IN · 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 S04521 - Covel Gardens RDF 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03043 - Azusa Landfill 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BFI Waste Services 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridge Recyclers Incorporated 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Cambridge City Facility 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2527-Windfall, IN (Monsanto Co.) 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE LeMaster Steel Erectors Inc. - Elkhart 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Oil Company Inc 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newton County Egg Farm 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR George Ade Memorial Health Care Center, Inc. 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson Fertilizer, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-TCR VIKOR 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Canyon Construction Company 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Four G Construction, Inc. DBA Geeding Construction, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR GoPro, Inc. Headquarters 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bayside Insulation & Construction, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metro Green Recycling 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Altoona- Parks 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE KE Flatwork Inc. 52 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.