Garbage disposal landfills · West Virginia

Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill

New Martinsville, WV · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage disposal landfills workplace, earning a grade F.

Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill: 7.8 TCR = 300% of Garbage disposal landfills BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill safety composite

Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−13.9

2016→2020

Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill injury rate improved

Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill's TCR fell 13.9 from 13.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.9 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=13.8 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · New Martinsville, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 300% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P19
  • PHOTO Chancellor Landfill
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chancellor Landfill (0.1 TCR gap)

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Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill averages 7.8 TCR (300% of the Garbage disposal landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill TCR series: 2016=13.9 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=13.8 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill falls in its industry

288 Garbage disposal landfills establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill (22 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill
Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill (22 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill has fewer employees than the Garbage disposal landfills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.7 4.3 2 0 0
2018 13.8 0.0 3 0 0
2017 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2016 13.9 3.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · WV · New Martinsville

288 Garbage disposal landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 12 employers in New Martinsville, WV · 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 Chancellor Landfill 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scholl Canyon Landfill 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Puente Hills Landfill 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04530 - Middle Peninsula Landfill 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hope Gas-Fairmont 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE WEIRTON SERVICE CENTER 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wiseman Construction Company, Inc 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wiseman Construction, Inc. 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2684 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2684 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wetzel County Hospital 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linx New Martinsville 166 FTE
NAT-TCR Glen Allen Fabricating Facility 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson Merchandisers, LLC 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Transportation Services : MSP9 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Blueline, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc - Indianapolis 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 073/Westland 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE WCTractor 41 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of East Hampton - Police, Fire & Ambulance Departments 22 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.