Garbage collection services · Minnesota

Steve's Sanitation

Perham, MN · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Steve's Sanitation runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

Steve's Sanitation: 4.2 TCR = 163% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Steve's Sanitation safety composite

Steve's Sanitation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Steve's Sanitation: 4.4 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.96× in 2024

Steve's Sanitation's TCR rose 8.1 from 4.4 in 2017 to 12.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Perham, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 163% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK #26/60
  • PHOTO S03024 - Cleveland H…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S03024 - Cleveland Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steve's Sanitation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Steve's Sanitation averages 4.2 TCR (163% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Steve's Sanitation TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2024=12.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Steve's Sanitation falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 60 Garbage collection services employers in Minnesota.

Steve's Sanitation (27 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Steve's Sanitation
Steve's Sanitation (27 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Steve's Sanitation has fewer employees than the Garbage collection services 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 12.5 12.5 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.4 4.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MN · Perham

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 29 employers in Perham, MN · 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 S03024 - Cleveland Hauling 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03030 - Chillicothe Hauling 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithey Environmental Services, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nevada Compactor Maintenacne 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Featherstone Fruits and Vegetables LLC. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City Feedmill 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms PAP MN 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2011-Stanton, MN 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3061_5905 552 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barrel O'Fun SNack Foods Co., LLC 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perham Health 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - PHM 449 FTE
NAT-TCR S03030 - Chillicothe Hauling 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR S03024 - Cleveland Hauling 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rapid City SD Yard 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 381 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reed Mill & Lumber Co., Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Byron Randall 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vacationland Vendors Arcade 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Team Farrell 27 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.