Garbage collection services · Florida

West Palm Beach

Boynton Beach, FL · ~202 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Palm Beach runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade C.

West Palm Beach: 2.9 TCR = 112% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Palm Beach safety composite

West Palm Beach scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−0.7

2020→2022

West Palm Beach injury rate improved

West Palm Beach's TCR fell 0.7 from 2.5 in 2020 to 1.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Boynton Beach, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 112% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #41/155
  • PHOTO Groot South
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Groot South (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Palm Beach in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Palm Beach averages 2.9 TCR (112% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

West Palm Beach TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=1.8 · BLS 2.6

Where West Palm Beach falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 155 Garbage collection services employers in Florida.

West Palm Beach (202 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach (202 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

West Palm Beach has more 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
2022 1.8 1.4 5 0 0
2021 4.5 4.5 11 0 0
2020 2.5 2.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · FL · Boynton Beach

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 127 employers in Boynton Beach, FL · 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 Groot South 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S10271 - Augusta West Hauling 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3120-Bulldog Systems 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR RGL, Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE HALLEY ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS, INC. 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at Ascend Performance Materials Cantonment FL 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEI-Group 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFS Roofing 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boynton 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical Specialists of the Palm Beaches 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridgeway Plumbing, Inc. 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2789 397 FTE
NAT-TCR buybuy Baby Paramus 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR StoneCreek Health & Rehabilitation 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hershey - Hazleton Plant 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR El Paso Center #2 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Inteplast Films Corp 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZMOB 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZGBG 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1197 - Florence Ky Whse 202 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.