Hazardous waste collection services · Michigan

SQS, Inc.

Livonia, MI · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SQS, Inc. runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hazardous waste collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

SQS, Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 134% of Hazardous waste collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SQS, Inc. safety composite

SQS, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

SQS, Inc.: 1.8 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

SQS, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.4 from 1.8 in 2023 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562112 · Livonia, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 134% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Stericycle Environme…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Lancaster,TX (0.1 TCR gap)

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SQS, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SQS, Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (134% of the Hazardous waste collection services BLS benchmark).

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

SQS, Inc. TCR series: 2023=1.8 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 2.6

Where SQS, Inc. falls in its industry

183 Hazardous waste collection ser establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Hazardous waste collection ser employers in Michigan.

SQS, Inc. (51 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SQS, Inc.
SQS, Inc. (51 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8

SQS, Inc. has more employees than the Hazardous waste collection services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 5.2 1.7 3 0 0
2023 1.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562112 · MI · Livonia

183 Hazardous waste collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 282 employers in Livonia, MI · 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 Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Lancaster,TX 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merced 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Fairburn,GA 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ECOFLO, Inc. 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack Pine Farms, LLC 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay County Waste Water Treatment Plant 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner Electric Service, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillsdale County Road Commission 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR System Office - Livonia 6,768 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livonia Transmission Plant 3,122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livonia Transmission 2,968 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acro Service 2,701 FTE
NAT-TCR Drew Transport 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Xylem Water Systems - Auburn 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cincinnati Headquarters 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas South NV DI 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shores Builders Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haitbrink Asphalt Paving, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lenox 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pac N Save 51 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. 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.