Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid · Indiana

Sanitary District - Refuse Department

Michigan City, IN · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sanitary District - Refuse Department runs at 842% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid workplace, earning a grade F.

Sanitary District - Refuse Department: 21.9 TCR = 842% of Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sanitary District - Refuse Department safety composite

Sanitary District - Refuse Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% 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 21.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

−40.7

2022→2023

Sanitary District - Refuse Department injury rate improved

Sanitary District - Refuse Department's TCR fell 40.7 from 62.6 in 2022 to 21.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 62.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=62.6 · 2023=21.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Michigan City, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.9 · 842% of ind

  • DART 21.9 DART
  • RANK #70/71
  • PHOTO LASAN - Solid Resour…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LASAN - Solid Resources South Collection Division North Central District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sanitary District - Refuse Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sanitary District - Refuse Department averages 21.9 TCR (842% of the Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid BLS benchmark).

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

Sanitary District - Refuse Department TCR series: 2022=62.6 · 2023=21.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Sanitary District - Refuse Department falls in its industry

2,322 Waste collection services, non establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 71 Waste collection services, non employers in Indiana.

Sanitary District - Refuse Department (25 employees, TCR 21.9) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sanitary District - Refuse Department
Sanitary District - Refuse Department (25 employees, TCR 21.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Sanitary District - Refuse Department has fewer employees than the Waste collection services, nonhazardous 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 21.9 21.9 6 0 0
2022 62.6 53.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IN · Michigan City

2,322 Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 111 employers in Michigan City, IN · 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 LASAN - Solid Resources South Collection Division North Central District 21.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emterra Environmental USA -Flint 21.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 133 Quaker 22.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conwaste Ponce 21.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vincennes Hatchery 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE U.S. Aggregates, Inc - Corporate 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE RWE Renewables Services LLC-Wildcat 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin (Pwr Del-IN) 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Michigan City 938 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan City High School 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods Solutions 602 FTE
NAT-TCR Rancho Oso 21.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Clay 21.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ALB - Ground Ops 21.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Van Dam Iron Works 21.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 85-Infs-Ogden Ut 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Country Engineering 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ui 7524 (Dallas - F) 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minuteman Industries Inc. 25 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.