Employer · Michigan

S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station

East Tawas, MI · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station: 3.0 TCR = 115% of industry BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station safety composite

S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2020

S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 6.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · East Tawas, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 115% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #13/80
  • PHOTO Waste Industries Ral…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waste Industries Raleigh (0.0 TCR gap)

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S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station averages 3.0 TCR (115% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=6 · BLS 2.6

Where S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station falls in its industry

2,322 industry establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 80 industry employers in Michigan.

S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station (29 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station
S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station (29 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2020 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MI · East Tawas

2,322 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 6 employers in East Tawas, MI · 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 Waste Industries Raleigh 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR All Recycling North 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services Albany/Lebanon - 4450 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highland Sanitation & Recycling - Newport 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (IN) 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Packing Co. Hart 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riveridge Cider 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Covert Generating Company 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tawas Tool Company 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tawas Tool Company (1&2) 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Tawas 32 FTE
NAT-TCR Yuma Regional Medical Center Specialty Clinic 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rivers Plumbing & Electric, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas Install & Maintenance 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fargo Service Center 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE S03827 - Lima Hauling 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill New Philadelphia Store 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interlakes Medical Center 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sturdevant Companies - Corporate 29 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.