Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills · Alaska

Solid Waste Division

Palmer, AK · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Solid Waste Division runs at 434% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills workplace, earning a grade F.

Solid Waste Division: 11.3 TCR = 434% of Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Solid Waste Division safety composite

Solid Waste Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Solid Waste Division: 3.7 → 18.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 18.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.67× in 2021

Solid Waste Division's TCR rose 15.1 from 3.7 in 2020 to 18.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Palmer, AK ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 434% of ind

  • DART 18.9 DART
  • RANK P9
  • PHOTO Modern Disposal Elk …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Modern Disposal Elk Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Solid Waste Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Solid Waste Division averages 11.3 TCR (434% of the Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Solid Waste Division TCR series: 2020=3.7 · 2021=18.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Solid Waste Division falls in its industry

288 Refuse collecting and operatin establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Solid Waste Division (38 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Solid Waste Division
Solid Waste Division (38 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Solid Waste Division has more employees than the Refuse collecting and operating solid wa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 18.9 18.9 4 1 0
2020 3.7 3.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · AK · Palmer

288 Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 64 employers in Palmer, AK · 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 Modern Disposal Elk Street 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toland 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill LLC 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Speedway Recycling and Landfill Facility 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Craig 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kenai Plant 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIOTS 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anchorage DC 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District 2,784 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mat-Su Borough School District 2,660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Matanuska Telecom Association, Inc. 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR 701-00649 269 FTE
NAT-TCR Courtyard by Marriott 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Reading Distribution Center - ABARTA Coca-Cola Beverages 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR East Syracuse, NY Office CS 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ventura - RCCB 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE NA-US-AZ-Peoria-Ludlow Drive 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Burlington 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Factory 1 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patterson Logistics Services 7 38 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, 2020. 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.