Refuse collection services · North Carolina

Solid Waste Department

Concord, NC · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Solid Waste Department runs at 451% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refuse collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Solid Waste Department: 11.7 TCR = 451% of Refuse collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Solid Waste Department safety composite

Solid Waste Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Solid Waste Department held a steady TCR band

Solid Waste Department's TCR held near 0.0 from 11.7 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.7 · 2017=11.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Concord, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 451% of ind

  • DART 11.7 DART
  • RANK #82/87
  • PHOTO S03204 - Cal Sierra …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S03204 - Cal Sierra Disposal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Solid Waste Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Solid Waste Department averages 11.7 TCR (451% of the Refuse collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Solid Waste Department TCR series: 2016=11.7 · 2017=11.7 · BLS 2.6

Where Solid Waste Department falls in its industry

2,322 Refuse collection services establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 87 Refuse collection services employers in North Carolina.

Solid Waste Department (33 employees, TCR 11.7) 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 Solid Waste Department
Solid Waste Department (33 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Solid Waste Department has fewer employees than the Refuse 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
2017 11.7 11.7 3 0 0
2016 11.7 11.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NC · Concord

2,322 Refuse collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 338 employers in Concord, NC · 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 S03204 - Cal Sierra Disposal 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jersey City - Broadway 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bronx-Casanova 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scott Brothers Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strickland Farms Payroll 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE James B. Morris Farms, Inc, 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE LTL, LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1114-Atrium Health Cabarrus (1114) 3,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-CHS NorthEast 2,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-Atrium Health Cabarrus 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLT3 1,263 FTE
NAT-TCR The Lismore Hotel 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DCI Donor Services Tissue Bank 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospital Couriers Virgina 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0932 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE HMA Contracting Corp. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peterson Home Health Care Services 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCT - Plainfield 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCT - Dayton 33 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: 2017, 2016. 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.