Waste hauling, local, nonhazardous solid · New York

Northern Sanitation

Plattsburgh, NY · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Sanitation runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Waste hauling, local, nonhazardous solid workplace, earning a grade C.

Northern Sanitation: 2.8 TCR = 108% of Waste hauling, local, nonhazardous solid BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Sanitation safety composite

Northern Sanitation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−2.4

2016→2018

Northern Sanitation injury rate improved

Northern Sanitation's TCR fell 2.4 from 4.4 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.4 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Plattsburgh, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/73
  • PHOTO Waste Industries Fay…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

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

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Northern Sanitation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Sanitation averages 2.8 TCR (108% of the Waste hauling, local, nonhazardous solid BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Sanitation TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2 · BLS 2.6

Where Northern Sanitation falls in its industry

2,322 Waste hauling, local, nonhazar establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 73 Waste hauling, local, nonhazar employers in New York.

Northern Sanitation (43 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Northern Sanitation
Northern Sanitation (43 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Northern Sanitation has fewer employees than the Waste hauling, local, nonhazardous solid 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
2018 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 4.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NY · Plattsburgh

2,322 Waste hauling, local, nonhazardous solid employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 96 employers in Plattsburgh, NY · 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 Fayetteville 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR S07061 - Phoenix Hauling - Butterfield Hauling 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04819 - Refuse, Inc - Sage Transfer Station 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conwaste Comercial Toa Baja 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phillips Family Farm, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Ridge Dairy, LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allenwaite Farms, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE NYSEG 3 City Center 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center 2,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schluter Systems, LP 801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinton County Chapter NYSARC 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mold-Rite Plastics LLC 509 FTE
NAT-TCR Waterloo Works Drive Train Operations 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Malloy Electric-Omaha 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 2364 Shoppers-Seven Corners (Sv 0520 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR American Type Culture Collection GMU Campus 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Minnesota - 210 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland Tool & Supply 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE SJC Home Health - Savannah 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linde - Twinsburg 43 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.