General services departments, government · Minnesota

Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling

Minneapolis, MN · ~168 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling runs at 585% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling: 18.7 TCR = 585% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling safety composite

Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling: 17.6 → 19.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2024

Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling's TCR rose 2.2 from 17.6 in 2023 to 19.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Minneapolis, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 18.7 · 585% of ind

  • DART 19.1 DART
  • RANK #267/275
  • PHOTO City of San Marino
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of San Marino (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling averages 18.7 TCR (585% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling TCR series: 2023=17.6 · 2024=19.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #267 safest of 275 General services departments, employers in Minnesota.

Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling (168 employees, TCR 18.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling
Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling (168 employees, TCR 18.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Public Works Solid Waste and Recycling has more employees than the General services departments, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 19.8 19.1 26 2 0
2023 17.6 17.6 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · MN · Minneapolis

1,496 General services departments, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, MN · 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 City of San Marino 18.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Benton 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Northbrook - Public Works 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Rockford 18.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 505 Nicollet REN3 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE RMS Energy Co LLC 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saputo White Bear Lake 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Labelworks - 0021-MNNO15 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR HMC Performance Coatings 18.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Rose Care Center 18.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield 18.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MD-MTMD-Maryland 18.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kilian Manufacturing Corporation 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martell Electric, LLC 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE North American Plants, Inc 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chestfld Pw St 168 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.