Waste Haulers and Landfill · Georgia

Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton

Dalton, GA · ~57 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Waste Haulers and Landfill workplace, earning a grade D.

Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton: 4.2 TCR = 162% of Waste Haulers and Landfill BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton safety composite

Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2016→2020

Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton injury rate improved

Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton's TCR fell 2.2 from 3.9 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Dalton, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 162% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #55/80
  • PHOTO S03812 - WM of North…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S03812 - WM of Northern MS - Tupelo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton averages 4.2 TCR (162% of the Waste Haulers and Landfill BLS benchmark).

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

Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=1.7 · BLS 2.6

Where Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton falls in its industry

2,322 Waste Haulers and Landfill establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 80 Waste Haulers and Landfill employers in Georgia.

Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton (57 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Services of Georgia-Dalton
Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton (57 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Waste Services of Georgia-Dalton has more employees than the Waste Haulers and Landfill 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 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 7.2 5.8 5 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2017 4.8 0.0 3 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · GA · Dalton

2,322 Waste Haulers and Landfill employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 292 employers in Dalton, GA · 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 S03812 - WM of Northern MS - Tupelo 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S02964 - Corona Hauling 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACI - Castro Valley 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic services of Bozeman -4886 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Noah's Ark Operating - 1704 Noah's Ark Rd. Jonesboro 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE RWAllen 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cope Closets Concepts 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeSoto III Solar Farm 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamilton Medical Center 1,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 97 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Dalton GA Antioch 1,077 FTE
NAT-TCR Landau Building Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Powerex Mount Juliet 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Geiger Hildebran 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithfield Direct- San Antonio 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Visual Group- Sign Company 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lone Pine Elementary 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delfingen US - NY 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toll Company 57 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.