Garbage hauling, local · North Carolina

Trash Talk USA

Raleigh, NC · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trash Talk USA runs at 500% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Trash Talk USA: 13.0 TCR = 500% of Garbage hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trash Talk USA safety composite

Trash Talk USA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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 12.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−12.4

2022→2024

Trash Talk USA injury rate improved

Trash Talk USA's TCR fell 12.4 from 18.5 in 2022 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 18.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=18.5 · 2023=14.4 · 2024=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Raleigh, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 500% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #83/87
  • PHOTO New Haven Operations
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Haven Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trash Talk USA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trash Talk USA averages 13.0 TCR (500% of the Garbage hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Trash Talk USA TCR series: 2022=18.5 · 2023=14.4 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Trash Talk USA falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage hauling, local establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #83 safest of 87 Garbage hauling, local employers in North Carolina.

Trash Talk USA (21 employees, TCR 13.0) 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 Trash Talk USA
Trash Talk USA (21 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Trash Talk USA has fewer employees than the Garbage hauling, local 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
2024 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2023 14.4 14.4 2 0 0
2022 18.5 9.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NC · Raleigh

2,322 Garbage hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 973 employers in Raleigh, NC · 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 New Haven Operations 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bobby D Thompson 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle - Itasca,IL 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Area-Urbana 13.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Timothy Yarbrough 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty NC Breeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCJA1-SEL-JASON 1' 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunburst Trout Farms 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headway Workforce Solutions 13,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC State University 11,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Rex Healthcare 7,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR SECU 6,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Artistic Southern - Phoenix 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Building Supply AF 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - AZA4 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Champion EMS 373 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercedes-Benz U.S. Plant** 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dhl Cvg** 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tongue River Electric Cooperative, Inc 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millworx Acquisitions dba Merrill Millwork 21 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. 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.