municipal curbside solid waste collection · Iowa

Solid Waste

Des Moines, IA · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Solid Waste runs at 699% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical municipal curbside solid waste collection workplace, earning a grade F.

Solid Waste: 18.2 TCR = 699% of municipal curbside solid waste collection BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Solid Waste safety composite

Solid Waste scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−20.8

2016→2018

Solid Waste injury rate improved

Solid Waste's TCR fell 20.8 from 27.4 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 27.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=27.4 · 2017=20.7 · 2018=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 699% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #24/24
  • PHOTO Brooklyn Hauling
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brooklyn Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Solid Waste in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Solid Waste averages 18.2 TCR (699% of the municipal curbside solid waste collection BLS benchmark).

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

Solid Waste TCR series: 2016=27.4 · 2017=20.7 · 2018=6.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Solid Waste falls in its industry

2,322 municipal curbside solid waste establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 24 municipal curbside solid waste employers in Iowa.

Solid Waste (56 employees, TCR 18.2) 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 Solid Waste
Solid Waste (56 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Solid Waste has more employees than the municipal curbside solid waste collectio 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
2018 6.5 2.2 2 1 0
2017 20.7 18.6 9 1 0
2016 27.4 25.2 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IA · Des Moines

2,322 municipal curbside solid waste collection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, IA · 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 Brooklyn Hauling 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toyon 18.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR S08390 - Winslow Hauling 18.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recology Vallejo 18.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Area Office 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rinderknecht Associates, Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Cities Engineering 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Boyd Machine and Repair Co Inc 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-BFL-BAKERSFIELD-PD 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR San Jose (Cajos) 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Loyola Marymount Univ-Mrktplac 18.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hebron Facility 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ftw Dc 006 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keasbey (Mac Lane) 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northstar Industries, LLC. 56 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: 2018, 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.