Landfills · Michigan

orchard hill sanitary landfill

Watervliet, MI · ~19 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

orchard hill sanitary landfill runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landfills workplace, earning a grade F.

orchard hill sanitary landfill: 5.7 TCR = 219% of Landfills BLS 2.6 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

orchard hill sanitary landfill safety composite

orchard hill sanitary landfill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Rising injury rate

orchard hill sanitary landfill: 8.0 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

orchard hill sanitary landfill's TCR rose 3.9 from 8.0 in 2016 to 11.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Watervliet, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 219% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO S06553 - Prairie Vie…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S06553 - Prairie View Landfill (0.0 TCR gap)

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orchard hill sanitary landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows orchard hill sanitary landfill averages 5.7 TCR (219% of the Landfills BLS benchmark).

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

orchard hill sanitary landfill TCR series: 2016=8 · 2017=0 · 2018=11.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=4 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=11.9 · BLS 2.6

Where orchard hill sanitary landfill falls in its industry

288 Landfills establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Landfills employers in Michigan.

orchard hill sanitary landfill (19 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 orchard hill sanitary landfill
orchard hill sanitary landfill (19 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

orchard hill sanitary landfill has fewer employees than the Landfills median and a higher 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 11.9 0.0 3 0 0
2023 8.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 11.4 0.0 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · MI · Watervliet

288 Landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Watervliet, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR S06553 - Prairie View Landfill 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04003 - Pheasant Point Landfill 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pine Ridge Landfill 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Everbest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (Greenhouse) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rieth-Riley - Houghton Lake 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arenac County Road Commission 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lane Automotive, Inc. 342 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Community Hospital Watervliet 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Hospital - Watervliet 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Best Way Disposal Inc., Watervliet 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Best Way Disposal 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR WCO 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mondelez North Smithfield 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ridewell Corporation 5.7 TCR

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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.