Garbage hauling, local · Texas

Southern Sanitation

Laredo, TX · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Sanitation runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage hauling, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Sanitation: 4.6 TCR = 177% of Garbage hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Sanitation safety composite

Southern Sanitation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Southern Sanitation: 3.7 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

Southern Sanitation's TCR rose 1.6 from 3.7 in 2021 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Laredo, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 177% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #79/117
  • PHOTO S04233 - WM of South…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S04233 - WM of Southern MN - Northfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Sanitation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Sanitation averages 4.6 TCR (177% of the Garbage hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Sanitation TCR series: 2021=3.7 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Southern Sanitation falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage hauling, local establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 117 Garbage hauling, local employers in Texas.

Southern Sanitation (39 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Southern Sanitation
Southern Sanitation (39 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Southern Sanitation has fewer employees than the Garbage hauling, local median and a lower 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 5.3 3.5 3 0 0
2023 3.6 1.8 1 1 0
2022 5.8 3.9 3 0 0
2021 3.7 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · TX · Laredo

2,322 Garbage hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 245 employers in Laredo, TX · 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 S04233 - WM of Southern MN - Northfield 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Disposal - Cordele Hauling 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04160 - Irvine Hauling 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlottesville 4410 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Descanso Dairy LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dumas 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Devon Energy - Wink TX 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAR SOUTH MINING LLC 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Laredo 3,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Laredo 1,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-21080000-21080 748 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-62 672 FTE
NAT-TCR Strongwell 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Formed Plastics inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DP Inc. General Contractors 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Frazier Rehab 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CEi Construction LLC DBA CEi Builders 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boyd Metals of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE IMPACT Strategies, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Associated Industrial Riggers Corp 39 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.