Garbage collection services · Minnesota

Waste Partners

Pine River, MN · ~26 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waste Partners runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

Waste Partners: 4.5 TCR = 172% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waste Partners safety composite

Waste Partners scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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 Partners: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2023

Waste Partners's TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Pine River, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 172% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #27/60
  • PHOTO Kimble Company Recyc…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kimble Company Recycle Center Twinsburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waste Partners in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waste Partners averages 4.5 TCR (172% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Waste Partners TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=17 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=6 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=2.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Waste Partners falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 60 Garbage collection services employers in Minnesota.

Waste Partners (26 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Partners
Waste Partners (26 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Waste Partners 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
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2022 5.4 5.4 2 0 0
2021 6.0 6.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 17.0 8.5 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MN · Pine River

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 9 employers in Pine River, MN · 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 Kimble Company Recycle Center Twinsburg 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAW - Norwalk 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04047 - KS TOPEKA HAULING 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robinson Waste Services 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Becker 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Silverstreak Dairy 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Huiras MN 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Egg 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pine River-Backus Schools 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society Pine River 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Halverson Wood Products Inc. 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trussworthy Components, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-TCR Nob Hill 635-San Jose 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's 311-Manteca 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Pa 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Skylease I Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Young & Bertke Air Systems Co. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE All West Select Sire 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Chinook 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kalwall Corporation-Kalcurve 26 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.