Garbage collection services · North Carolina

Waste Pro 501 - Asheville

Arden, NC · ~69 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Waste Pro 501 - Asheville runs at 788% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Waste Pro 501 - Asheville: 20.5 TCR = 788% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waste Pro 501 - Asheville safety composite

Waste Pro 501 - Asheville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 10% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

5/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−15.0

2018→2019

Waste Pro 501 - Asheville injury rate improved

Waste Pro 501 - Asheville's TCR fell 15.0 from 28.0 in 2018 to 13.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 28.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=28.0 · 2019=13.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 20.5 · 788% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #87/87
  • PHOTO City of Riverside Pu…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Riverside Public Works Solid Waste Operations (0.1 TCR gap)

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Waste Pro 501 - Asheville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waste Pro 501 - Asheville averages 20.5 TCR (788% 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 Pro 501 - Asheville TCR series: 2018=28 · 2019=13 · BLS 2.6

Where Waste Pro 501 - Asheville falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #87 safest of 87 Garbage collection services employers in North Carolina.

Waste Pro 501 - Asheville (69 employees, TCR 20.5) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Waste Pro 501 - Asheville
Waste Pro 501 - Asheville (69 employees, TCR 20.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Waste Pro 501 - Asheville has more employees than the Garbage collection services 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
2019 13.0 10.8 12 0 1
2018 28.0 17.6 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NC · Arden

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 77 employers in Arden, 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 City of Riverside Public Works Solid Waste Operations 20.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LASAN - Solid Resources South Collection Division South Central District 20.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conwaste Recogido Region Toa Baja 20.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parks Garbage Service - Hometown 20.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE APEX OPERATIONS 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH RALEIGH OPERATIONS 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Regional Water & Sewer H2GO 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Charlotte Office 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASHEVILLE NC 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR DUKE-ASHEVILLE 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Asheville 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil Healthcare Asheville 566 FTE
NAT-TCR Police Department 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Skyline Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Feld Entertainment - D30 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 9277-690 Mount Snow 20.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE API Heattransfer 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-MD/PA District : SVC-Harrisburg PA-USA 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vulcan Plastics 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE GPOR - El Reno 69 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.