Garbage collection services · Illinois

Packers - LRS

Chicago, IL · ~172 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Packers - LRS runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Packers - LRS: 6.4 TCR = 246% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Packers - LRS safety composite

Packers - LRS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Packers - LRS held a steady TCR band

Packers - LRS's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.9 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.9 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=7.0 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 246% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #87/143
  • PHOTO Ecology Auto Parts
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ecology Auto Parts (0.0 TCR gap)

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Packers - LRS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Packers - LRS averages 6.4 TCR (246% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Packers - LRS TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=7 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=7 · BLS 2.6

Where Packers - LRS falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #87 safest of 143 Garbage collection services employers in Illinois.

Packers - LRS (172 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Packers - LRS
Packers - LRS (172 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Packers - LRS has more employees than the Garbage collection services median and a higher 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 7.0 5.0 14 0 0
2019 5.3 4.8 10 1 0
2018 7.0 6.0 14 0 0
2017 5.8 5.3 11 0 0
2016 6.9 5.3 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IL · Chicago

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Ecology Auto Parts 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper Recycling - Itasca 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services of North Carolina (3186) 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-State Disposal Inc 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alamp Concrete 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sensient Flavors, LLC 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rantoul 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE ArcelorMittal Corporate - Chicago (EIN 710871875) 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Bluewater Environmental Services, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2331 - North Houston 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FLTAMP-OPI-TAMPA 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brownsville 114 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6783 UW Health Rehab Hosp 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rogers Corporation ACS-E 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE 827 Brooklyn, Ny 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calcutta Health Care Center 172 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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