Garbage collection services · Washington

Sanitary Service Company

Bellingham, WA · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sanitary Service Company runs at 355% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Sanitary Service Company: 9.2 TCR = 355% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sanitary Service Company safety composite

Sanitary Service Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Sanitary Service Company: 8.7 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2024

Sanitary Service Company's TCR rose 1.1 from 8.7 in 2022 to 9.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 355% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #23/28
  • PHOTO Dallas Waste Disposa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dallas Waste Disposal & Recycling Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sanitary Service Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sanitary Service Company averages 9.2 TCR (355% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Sanitary Service Company TCR series: 2022=8.7 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Sanitary Service Company 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 Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 28 Garbage collection services employers in Washington.

Sanitary Service Company (95 employees, TCR 9.2) 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 Sanitary Service Company
Sanitary Service Company (95 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Sanitary Service Company 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 9.8 9.8 9 0 0
2022 8.7 8.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · WA · Bellingham

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 210 employers in Bellingham, WA · 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 Dallas Waste Disposal & Recycling Inc 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04417 - WM of Alameda County (WMAC) 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanitation - operations 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PROMED WASTE SOLUTIONS, LLC 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henry Bosma Orchard 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE PE ELL AREA 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Regional Wastewater District 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dovetail General Contractors LLC 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Washington University 3,794 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Medical Center Main Campus 2,537 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Operations - Matrix Service Inc. 2,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHMG SJMC Clinics 864 FTE
NAT-TCR 122 Doral 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Electric Connection 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Chubbuck 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AH Excavation LLC 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Embassy Suites LAX North 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wicker Construction Inc 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairmont WV 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ottawa County Health Center 95 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, 2022. 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.