Garbage collection services · Pennsylvania

Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union

Mt Union, PA · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union runs at 382% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union: 9.9 TCR = 382% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union safety composite

Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union: 3.7 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2021

Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union's TCR rose 12.4 from 3.7 in 2020 to 16.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Mt Union, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 382% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #91/116
  • PHOTO Recology Eel River
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recology Eel River (0.0 TCR gap)

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Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union averages 9.9 TCR (382% 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 - Mt Union TCR series: 2020=3.7 · 2021=16.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union 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 #91 safest of 116 Garbage collection services employers in Pennsylvania.

Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union (43 employees, TCR 9.9) 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 - Mt Union
Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union (43 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Parks Garbage Service - Mt Union 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 16.1 14.1 8 0 0
2020 3.7 3.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · PA · Mt Union

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 Recology Eel River 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03993 - WM of Pittsburgh 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recology Oregon Recovery 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marina 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm Fresh Egg Products (FFEP) 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panda Hummel Station, LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE 435-NiSource-New Castle PA 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Builders Inc 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parks Mt Union 33 FTE
NAT-TCR New Star Inc 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Council Bluffs Goodwill Retail Store 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Corner Market #9028 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Border Valley Trading, LTD. 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE TAMKO - Knoxville 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Insulation #859 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE GTG, Inc. #760 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Partners Insulation North (BDI) #898 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: 2021, 2020. 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.