Garbage collection services · Minnesota

Suburban Waste Services

Savage, MN · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Suburban Waste Services runs at 728% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Suburban Waste Services: 18.9 TCR = 728% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Suburban Waste Services safety composite

Suburban Waste Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

−15.6

2019→2021

Suburban Waste Services injury rate improved

Suburban Waste Services's TCR fell 15.6 from 31.5 in 2019 to 15.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 31.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=31.5 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=15.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.9 · 728% of ind

  • DART 13.9 DART
  • RANK #59/60
  • PHOTO Armada Waste, Hyde P…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Armada Waste, Hyde Park MA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Suburban Waste Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Suburban Waste Services averages 18.9 TCR (728% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Suburban Waste Services TCR series: 2019=31.5 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=15.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Suburban Waste Services falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #59 safest of 60 Garbage collection services employers in Minnesota.

Suburban Waste Services (54 employees, TCR 18.9) 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 Suburban Waste Services
Suburban Waste Services (54 employees, TCR 18.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Suburban Waste Services has fewer employees than the Garbage collection services 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
2021 15.9 13.9 8 0 0
2020 9.4 3.8 4 1 0
2019 31.5 6.3 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MN · Savage

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 63 employers in Savage, 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 Armada Waste, Hyde Park MA 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hughes Trash Removal, Inc 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Honolulu Disposal Service, Inc. 19.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jersey City - 375 IWS 19.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monticello Training Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 09 Eveleth 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elder-Jones Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haldeman Homme, Inc. - Minneapolis - Corporate 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1833 - Savage 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR Savage - Main Store 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN Plant 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Savage 180 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-00628 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Palms of Mount Pleasant 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The City of Bloomington - Fire Dept 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Accolade Healthcare of Paxton Senior Living 18.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Connecticut Coining, Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preco, Inc. -KS 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fremouw Environmental Services 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crossroads Mobile Maintenance Michigan 54 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.