Hazardous waste collection · Washington

Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA

Tacoma, WA · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hazardous waste collection workplace, earning a grade F.

Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA: 6.5 TCR = 250% of Hazardous waste collection BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA safety composite

Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.8

2018→2019

Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA injury rate improved

Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA's TCR fell 5.8 from 9.4 in 2018 to 3.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.4 · 2019=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562112 · Tacoma, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 250% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Safety Kleen Systems…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77BPG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA averages 6.5 TCR (250% of the Hazardous waste collection BLS benchmark).

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

Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA TCR series: 2018=9.4 · 2019=3.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA falls in its industry

183 Hazardous waste collection establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Hazardous waste collection employers in Washington.

Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA (48 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA
Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA (48 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Stericycle Environmental Solutions - 1629Tacoma,WA has more employees than the Hazardous waste collection 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
2019 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2018 9.4 7.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562112 · WA · Tacoma

183 Hazardous waste collection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, WA · 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 Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77BPG 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 49NV 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asbury Environmental Services, d/b/a World Oil Environmental Services, a California corporation Parl 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asbury Environmental Services, d/b/a World Oil Environmental Services, a California corporation cere 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cold Creek Vineyards #8 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE F/T Constellation 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE F/T Defender 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Esperanza Ridge LLC 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0017 2613 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1759 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tuff Shed Store 210 - Houston - SC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Chicago Dept of Fleet and Facility Management - 900 E. 103rd St 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chandler Concrete Administration & Dispatch - NC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 52nd Avenue Clinic 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garland Insulating - Austin 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frisco Memory Care, LLC 48 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: 2019, 2018. 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.