Garbage collection services · Virginia

Public Works- Solid Waste

Hampton, VA · ~63 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works- Solid Waste runs at 346% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works- Solid Waste: 9.0 TCR = 346% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works- Solid Waste safety composite

Public Works- Solid Waste scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−2.8

2019→2024

Public Works- Solid Waste injury rate improved

Public Works- Solid Waste's TCR fell 2.8 from 12.4 in 2019 to 9.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.4 · 2022=10.0 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=9.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Hampton, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 346% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #39/43
  • PHOTO BRI TS
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BRI TS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works- Solid Waste in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works- Solid Waste averages 9.0 TCR (346% 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- Solid Waste TCR series: 2019=12.4 · 2022=10 · 2023=4 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Public Works- Solid Waste falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 43 Garbage collection services employers in Virginia.

Public Works- Solid Waste (63 employees, TCR 9.0) 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- Solid Waste
Public Works- Solid Waste (63 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Public Works- Solid Waste 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
2024 9.6 8.2 7 0 0
2023 4.0 4.0 3 0 0
2022 10.0 6.0 5 0 0
2019 12.4 9.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · VA · Hampton

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 231 employers in Hampton, VA · 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 BRI TS 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWS- Sunrise Sanitation/Sunset Disposal/Lathrop Sanitation/Delta Container 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisville Hauling Operations and Transfer Station 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus, Oh Hauling Operations 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Summit Helicopters, Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE W&L Construction and Paving Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division of Transportation (CON-0125) 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE E Contracting Services, LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara CarePlex Hospital 1,584 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norfolk Tide Facility 990 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coleman Place 990 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport News Transit Center 990 FTE
NAT-TCR DC4 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cincinnati 062 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Breakers 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chas A Bernick , Brainerd 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Joliet Township High School District 204 - Admin Center 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fortune Metal, Inc. of RI 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wauconda Fire District 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Energy Shield Window & Door Company Main Office 63 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, 2022, 2019. 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.