Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators · Florida

Wheelabrator South Broward Inc.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL · ~77 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators workplace, earning a grade B.

Wheelabrator South Broward Inc.: 1.9 TCR = 75% of Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. safety composite

Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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→2022

Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. injury rate improved

Wheelabrator South Broward Inc.'s TCR fell 2.2 from 3.2 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=2.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.0 · 2022=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562213 · Ft. Lauderdale, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 75% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Covanta MacArthur Re…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Covanta MacArthur Renewable Energy, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. averages 1.9 TCR (75% of the Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators BLS benchmark).

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

Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=2 · 2020=0 · 2021=1 · 2022=1 · BLS 2.6

Where Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. falls in its industry

74 Solid Waste Combustors And Inc establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Solid Waste Combustors And Inc employers in Florida.

Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. (77 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wheelabrator South Broward Inc.
Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. (77 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Wheelabrator South Broward Inc. has more employees than the Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2022 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2021 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.0 1.0 1 1 0
2018 2.1 1.0 2 0 0
2017 4.3 3.2 4 0 0
2016 3.2 3.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562213 · FL · Ft. Lauderdale

74 Solid Waste Combustors And Incinerators employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 111 employers in Ft. Lauderdale, 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 Covanta MacArthur Renewable Energy, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palm Beach Resource Recovery Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilmarth Generating Plant 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wheelabrator Bridgeport, L.P. 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE IMMOKALEE HARVESTING 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun City Nursery 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winter Garden Complex 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sauer Incorporated - Federal 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Cross Nursing Network 2,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Cross North Ridge Medical 2,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Cross Health Ministries 2,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Cross Hospital, INC 2,607 FTE
NAT-TCR Kadant Solutions Divison 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Holbein Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mi-Sher Auto Supply, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Danville Plant 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vbs - Dcx 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milford Place 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4598-Rtc Huntley 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellsprings of Phoenix LLC 77 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, 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.