Hazardous waste collection services · Iowa

North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency

Fort Dodge, IA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hazardous waste collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency: 7.1 TCR = 272% of Hazardous waste collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency safety composite

North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency: 4.2 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2023

North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency's TCR rose 5.8 from 4.2 in 2022 to 10.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562112 · Fort Dodge, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 272% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK P9
  • PHOTO Stericycle Environme…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Gary,IN (0.0 TCR gap)

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North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency averages 7.1 TCR (272% of the Hazardous waste collection services BLS benchmark).

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

North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency TCR series: 2022=4.2 · 2023=10 · BLS 2.6

Where North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency falls in its industry

183 Hazardous waste collection ser establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency (22 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency
North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency (22 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8

North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency has fewer employees than the Hazardous waste collection services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 10.0 10.0 2 0 0
2022 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562112 · IA · Fort Dodge

183 Hazardous waste collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 75 employers in Fort Dodge, IA · 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 Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Gary,IN 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Orlando,FL 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 49G7 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fremouw Environmental Services 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Center 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Terminal 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Correctional Facility 452 FTE
NAT-TCR Rolling Meadows Park District 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (ANA-6373) 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR So. Cal. Beach Club 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TKI Yankton 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clinch River Casting, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE MMW Fabrication, Ltd 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 104828 - MOB Expansion 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Portland 22 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: 2023, 2022. 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.