Garbage collection services · Pennsylvania

Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg

Chambersburg, PA · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg runs at 377% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg: 9.8 TCR = 377% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg safety composite

Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−4.9

2018→2021

Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg injury rate improved

Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg's TCR fell 4.9 from 11.2 in 2018 to 6.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.2 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=14.4 · 2021=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Chambersburg, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 377% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #89/116
  • PHOTO Republic Services of…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Republic Services of New Jersey LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg averages 9.8 TCR (377% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg TCR series: 2018=11.2 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=14.4 · 2021=6.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #89 safest of 116 Garbage collection services employers in Pennsylvania.

Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg (33 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg
Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg (33 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Parks Garbage Service - Chambersburg has fewer 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
2021 6.3 6.3 3 0 0
2020 14.4 12.0 6 0 0
2019 7.4 2.5 2 1 0
2018 11.2 11.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · PA · Chambersburg

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 144 employers in Chambersburg, PA · 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 Republic Services of New Jersey LLC 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle - Elizabeth,NJ 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Disposal - Somerset 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR G. Mello Disposal 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colver Power Project 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oil City 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norristown Operations 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chambersburg Hospital 2,034 FTE
CITY-NEAR WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0589 - Chambersburg PA DC 1,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0589 - Chambersburg DC 1,049 FTE
NAT-TCR Westby Cooperative Creamery 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 234824-Joppa Po 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Titan Tire of Bryan 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Freight Lines, Inc. - San Antonio 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE JX Truck Center Champaign 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technical Services 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Middleton Residence Inn 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bay Therm-Oneida #270 33 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.