Waste Collection · North Carolina

Waste Industries Durham

Durham, NC · ~78 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waste Industries Durham runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Waste Collection workplace, earning a grade D.

Waste Industries Durham: 4.0 TCR = 153% of Waste Collection BLS 2.6 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waste Industries Durham safety composite

Waste Industries Durham scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−4.8

2016→2024

Waste Industries Durham injury rate improved

Waste Industries Durham's TCR fell 4.8 from 5.8 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.8 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=1.0 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=5.0 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #43/87
  • PHOTO Plattsburgh NY Colle…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plattsburgh NY Collection (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waste Industries Durham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waste Industries Durham averages 4.0 TCR (153% of the Waste Collection BLS benchmark).

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

Waste Industries Durham TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=1 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=5 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Waste Industries Durham falls in its industry

2,322 Waste Collection establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #43 safest of 87 Waste Collection employers in North Carolina.

Waste Industries Durham (78 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Waste Industries Durham
Waste Industries Durham (78 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Waste Industries Durham has more employees than the Waste Collection 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 6.4 5.5 7 0 0
2022 5.0 4.0 5 0 0
2021 5.2 4.2 5 0 0
2020 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2019 4.9 4.9 5 0 0
2018 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.1 3.1 4 0 0
2016 5.8 1.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NC · Durham

2,322 Waste Collection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, 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 Plattsburgh NY Collection 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norwalk Recycling Service Center 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Americus 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WASTE RESOURCES GARDENA, INC 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kings Mountain Generation Support Facility 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Ridge Electric Corporate Office 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City location 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ground Thunder Construction 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Whitewater Commons Senior Living 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #0017 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mondelez Haverhill 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 016-EVV 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pathways PACE-IPO 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridgeport National Bindery, Inc 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE A-C Motor Express LLC 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rust-Oleum 78 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.