Garbage collection services · Colorado

Rocky Mountain Sanitation

Grand Junction, CO · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rocky Mountain Sanitation runs at 420% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Rocky Mountain Sanitation: 10.9 TCR = 420% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rocky Mountain Sanitation safety composite

Rocky Mountain Sanitation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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 10.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Rocky Mountain Sanitation: 10.6 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2021

Rocky Mountain Sanitation's TCR rose 0.7 from 10.6 in 2017 to 11.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Grand Junction, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 420% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #42/51
  • PHOTO S02907 - WM of IL - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S02907 - WM of IL - Envirofil Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rocky Mountain Sanitation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rocky Mountain Sanitation averages 10.9 TCR (420% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Rocky Mountain Sanitation TCR series: 2017=10.6 · 2021=11.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Rocky Mountain Sanitation falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 51 Garbage collection services employers in Colorado.

Rocky Mountain Sanitation (31 employees, TCR 10.9) 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 Rocky Mountain Sanitation
Rocky Mountain Sanitation (31 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Rocky Mountain Sanitation 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 11.3 11.3 4 0 0
2017 10.6 3.5 0 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CO · Grand Junction

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 233 employers in Grand Junction, CO · 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 S02907 - WM of IL - Envirofil Hauling 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03196 - WM Grass Valley/Nevada City 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Disposal - Stateline Hauling 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Sacramento Recycling Collection Center 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Strad USA Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heorot Power Management, LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Isabel Electric Association-Pueblo West E&O 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brighton Service Center-275 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital 2,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center 2,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Hospital 1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 609 27 1/2 Road 641 FTE
NAT-TCR Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR QCDRM - Albuquerque 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Burt Brothers - Bountiful 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services Venice 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Office - 01 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pressure Cast 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sparks Grocery Oultet 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ontonagon Plant 31 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.