Garbage collection services · Indiana

Public Works

1855 Joliet Road, Valparaiso, IN · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works runs at 387% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works: 10.1 TCR = 387% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works safety composite

Public Works 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.06 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

Public Works: 4.1 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2023

Public Works's TCR rose 12.0 from 4.1 in 2022 to 16.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · 1855 Joliet Road, Valparaiso, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 387% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #58/71
  • PHOTO Conwaste Recogido V…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Conwaste Recogido Viejo San Juan (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works averages 10.1 TCR (387% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works TCR series: 2022=4.1 · 2023=16.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Public Works falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 71 Garbage collection services employers in Indiana.

Public Works (57 employees, TCR 10.1) 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 Public Works
Public Works (57 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Public Works 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
2023 16.1 14.1 8 0 0
2022 4.1 4.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IN · 1855 Joliet Road, Valparaiso

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana 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 Conwaste Recogido Viejo San Juan 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GFL Environmental Wayne 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WALTERS RECYCLING & REFUSE INC. 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Pro 608 - Natchez 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remington Corp 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE AAA Main Office 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gatlin Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan & Poore, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-TCR Allied Ag Associates, Inc 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Village Of Cleveland 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wesley Lea Hill 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgewood Sioux Falls Senior Living 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Torrington Main Street Market 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enoch Precision Machining 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eventworks Nashville 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Isd #698 57 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: 2023, 2022. 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.