Refuse collection services · Virginia

Waste Industries Tidewater

Chesapeake, VA · ~74 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waste Industries Tidewater runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Refuse collection services workplace, earning a grade C.

Waste Industries Tidewater: 2.6 TCR = 98% of Refuse collection services BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waste Industries Tidewater safety composite

Waste Industries Tidewater scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

Waste Industries Tidewater: 0.0 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Waste Industries Tidewater's TCR rose 2.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Chesapeake, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 98% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/43
  • PHOTO Signal Hill
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Signal Hill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waste Industries Tidewater in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waste Industries Tidewater averages 2.6 TCR (98% of the Refuse collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Waste Industries Tidewater TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=2.2 · BLS 2.6

Where Waste Industries Tidewater falls in its industry

2,322 Refuse collection services establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #9 safest of 43 Refuse collection services employers in Virginia.

Waste Industries Tidewater (74 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Tidewater
Waste Industries Tidewater (74 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Waste Industries Tidewater has more employees than the Refuse 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
2020 2.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 6.3 6.3 5 1 0
2018 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · VA · Chesapeake

2,322 Refuse 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 Signal Hill 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04248 - Southern Maryland 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomasville 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Disposal - Montgomery Hauling 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4585_10123 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE TST Tactical Defense Solutions Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE O'Dorisio Carpentry and Concrete LLC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Down Under Construction LLC 74 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 Md360 - Scuffletown 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR S04248 - Southern Maryland 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Legrand Wiremold West Hartford 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ON Semiconductor Lindon 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE DeKALB Molded Plastics 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE MRG 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAP 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE C. and D. Distributors, Inc. 74 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: 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.