Industry profile · NAICS 562211

Hazardous waste disposal facilities

Workplace injury rates across 215 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

215
Employers
2.5
Avg TCR
2.6
BLS benchmark
1,593
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Hazardous waste disposal facilities average 2.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 2.6.

2.5
avg TCR · reporting employers
2.6
BLS national benchmark
215
employers reporting
1,593
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Hazardous waste disposal facilities Safety Data Reveals

The Hazardous waste disposal facilities sector (NAICS 562211) encompasses 215 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 1,593 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 2.6 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 2.5 is below the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Hazardous waste disposal facilities that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77LIN Linden, NJ A 1.1
US Ecology Nevada Beatty, NV A 1.1
Clean Harbors El Dorado El Dorado, AR A 1.1
Envirite of Pennsylvania, Inc. York, PA A 1.1
Hawthorne US NV Hawthorne Army Depot NV988 Hawthorne, NV A 1.1
Clean Harbors Environmental Services El Dorado El Dorado, AR A 1.1
Elizabeth NJ TSDF Elizabeth, NJ A 1.0
Cycle Chem- Elizabeth TSDF Elizabeth, NJ A 1.0
TES Berlin Operations Berlin, CT A 1.0
CWM-Lake Charles Sulphur, LA A 0.9
TM Deer Park Services LLC Deer Park, TX A 0.9
Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Inglewood,CA Inglewood, CA A 0.9
Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77DOR Dolton, IL A 0.9
Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 60TT Norwell, MA A 0.9
Azusa Azusa, CA A 0.9
HES Indy Plant Indianapolis, IN A 0.9
Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Avalon,TX Avalon, TX A 0.9
Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. Kimball, NE A 0.8
US Ecology Detroit South Detroit, MI A 0.8
Nuclear Sources and Services, Inc Houston, TX A 0.8
Clean Harbors El Dorado LLC 69EL El Dorado, AR A 0.8
CWM-LCH Gulf Coast Transportation Sulphur, LA A 0.8
MS - Carlsbad, NM - 1CANM Carlsbad, NM A 0.8
Chem Demil US AL Anniston AL AL982 Anniston, AL A 0.8
Clean Harbors Deer Park, LLC La Porte, TX A 0.8
Houston Tristar 3I Webster, TX A 0.8
MS - Pueblo, CA - 1PUCO Pueblo, CO A 0.7
Clean Harbors of Baltimore Inc 64BA Baltimore, MD A 0.7
Tradebe Environmental Services - Saraland Commerce Operations Saraland, AL A 0.7
EC East Chicago, IN A 0.7
EnergySolutions Salt Lake City, UT A 0.7
CWD Menomonee Falls, WI A 0.7
Clean Harbors Environmental Services Deer Park Incinerator La Porte, TX A 0.7
US Ecology Managed Service Group Livonia, MI A 0.6
WIPP Carlsbad, NM A 0.6
Perma-Fix of Florida, Inc. (Pff) Gainesville,, FL A 0.6
Transuranic Waste Processing Center Lenoir City, TN A 0.6
Clean Harbors Deer Park LLC 69DE La Porte, TX A 0.6
US Ecology Washington Richland, WA A 0.5
Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 60TTW Burton, MI A 0.5
Cycle Chem Inc. Elizabeth TSDF Elizabeth, NJ A 0.5
Creedmoor Creedmoor, NC A 0.5
Chem Demil US KY Richmond KY KY997 Richmond, KY A 0.5
Clean Harbors Aragonite LLC 69AG Grantsville, UT A 0.5
Cycle Chem- Lewisberry TSDF Lewisberry, PA A 0.5
Nuclear Waste Partnership Carlsbad, NM A 0.5
US Ecology Michigan Belleville, MI A 0.4
Giant Resource Recovery - Attalla, Inc. Attalla, AL A 0.4
Spring Grove Resource Recovery Inc 66SG Cincinnati, OH A 0.3
US Ecology Corporate Office Boise, ID A 0.3
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This sector averages 2.5 against a BLS benchmark of 2.6 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.