Garbage collection services · Georgia

Thomaston

Thomaston, GA · ~28 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thomaston runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade A.

Thomaston: 0.9 TCR = 34% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thomaston safety composite

Thomaston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

Thomaston: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.04× in 2024

Thomaston's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Thomaston, GA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 34% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #4/80
  • PHOTO S10277 - Macon Hauling
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S10277 - Macon Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thomaston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thomaston averages 0.9 TCR (34% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Thomaston TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Thomaston falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 80 Garbage collection services employers in Georgia.

Thomaston (28 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Thomaston
Thomaston (28 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Thomaston 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 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 1 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · GA · Thomaston

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 28 employers in Thomaston, GA · 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 S10277 - Macon Hauling 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Tucson Hauling 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S07495 - Sumter Hauling 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Industries of Atlanta Cedartown 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Blackshear AEP 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Waelder, TX 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Georgia Forest Products, Inc 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1112 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1112 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Solo Cup Company Thomaston 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Standard Textile, Thomaston 169 FTE
NAT-TCR GEM Industrial Inc. - Cleveland Office 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FCA Detroit Transport Terminal 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Adamsville Transportation 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 001-PERRYTON 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nicholson Manufacturing, Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Germantown Tool Machine Shop, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vintage Park of Ottawa 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Instruments 28 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.