Garbage collection services · Illinois

Republic Services Chicago Heights

Chicago Heights, IL · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Republic Services Chicago Heights runs at 434% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Republic Services Chicago Heights: 11.3 TCR = 434% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Republic Services Chicago Heights safety composite

Republic Services Chicago Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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 11.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Republic Services Chicago Heights: 7.7 → 14.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2023

Republic Services Chicago Heights's TCR rose 7.2 from 7.7 in 2022 to 14.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 434% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #122/143
  • PHOTO Walters Recycling an…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Walters Recycling and Refuse (0.0 TCR gap)

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Republic Services Chicago Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Republic Services Chicago Heights averages 11.3 TCR (434% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Republic Services Chicago Heights TCR series: 2022=7.7 · 2023=14.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Republic Services Chicago Heights falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #122 safest of 143 Garbage collection services employers in Illinois.

Republic Services Chicago Heights (35 employees, TCR 11.3) 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 Republic Services Chicago Heights
Republic Services Chicago Heights (35 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Republic Services Chicago Heights 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
2023 14.9 9.9 6 0 0
2022 7.7 7.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IL · Chicago Heights

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, IL · 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 Walters Recycling and Refuse 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tracy Delta Solid Waste Management Inc. 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle - N.Salt Lake,UT 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garrard County 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Kendall Energy LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.J.M. Electric Cooperative, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Beloit Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPage Water Commission 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR The Village at Augsburg 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Walters Recycling and Refuse 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard at Jamestown 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tracy Delta Solid Waste Management Inc. 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Steel West, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arcadia Hotel Venture No.2 dba Hampton Inn and Suites 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paragon Manufacturing Corp 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE True Friends Moving Company LLC 35 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.