Garbage collection services · Virginia

TFC Recycling

Chesapeake, VA · ~267 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

TFC Recycling runs at 277% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

TFC Recycling: 7.2 TCR = 277% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TFC Recycling safety composite

TFC Recycling scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 35% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−0.7

2020→2023

TFC Recycling injury rate improved

TFC Recycling's TCR fell 0.7 from 8.8 in 2020 to 8.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.8 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Chesapeake, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 277% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #34/43
  • PHOTO WC of E.KY Perry Cou…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 91 inj
  • SIZE ~267 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WC of E.KY Perry County (0.0 TCR gap)

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TFC Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TFC Recycling averages 7.2 TCR (277% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

TFC Recycling TCR series: 2020=8.8 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=8 · BLS 2.6

Where TFC Recycling falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 43 Garbage collection services employers in Virginia.

TFC Recycling (267 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 TFC Recycling
TFC Recycling (267 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

TFC Recycling has more 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
2023 8.0 4.8 20 0 0
2022 5.3 4.2 18 1 0
2021 6.7 3.6 24 0 0
2020 8.8 6.6 29 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · VA · Chesapeake

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 434 employers in Chesapeake, VA · 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 WC of E.KY Perry County 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03367 - MN Cohasset 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S05601 - WM of Christian County 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR M & M Services Inc 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aerojet Rocketdyne - Orange 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10205 Charlottesville 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2565 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1652 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF2 2,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chesapeake Regional Medical Center 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC Chesapeake, Inc. 1,056 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossways 931 FTE
NAT-TCR KPC Promise SNF of Wichita Falls 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Meridian 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR North Shore University Hospitl 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 104378 - Three Rivers Energy Center 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pcc Airfoils - Crooksville 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific, Eugene, OR 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington JIF Plant 267 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.