Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local · California

1231 Second St - Recycling

Berkeley, CA · ~34 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1231 Second St - Recycling runs at 560% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

1231 Second St - Recycling: 14.6 TCR = 560% of Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1231 Second St - Recycling safety composite

1231 Second St - Recycling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

1231 Second St - Recycling: 9.2 → 14.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 36.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2024

1231 Second St - Recycling's TCR rose 5.5 from 9.2 in 2017 to 14.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 36.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Berkeley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.6 · 560% of ind

  • DART 14.7 DART
  • RANK #212/247
  • PHOTO Sloatsburg Hauling
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sloatsburg Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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1231 Second St - Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1231 Second St - Recycling averages 14.6 TCR (560% of the Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

1231 Second St - Recycling TCR series: 2017=9.2 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=24.5 · 2021=36.4 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=14.7 · BLS 2.6

Where 1231 Second St - Recycling falls in its industry

2,322 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous so establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #212 safest of 247 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous so employers in California.

1231 Second St - Recycling (34 employees, TCR 14.6) 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 1231 Second St - Recycling
1231 Second St - Recycling (34 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

1231 Second St - Recycling has fewer employees than the Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) median and a higher 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
2024 14.7 14.7 2 0 0
2023 7.4 4.9 2 1 0
2022 6.7 3.3 2 0 0
2021 36.4 36.4 4 0 0
2020 24.5 24.5 3 0 0
2019 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2017 9.2 9.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · Berkeley

2,322 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, CA · 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 Sloatsburg Hauling 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR E. J. Harrison and Sons, Inc. 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresno Sanitation Division 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maui Disposal Company Inc. 14.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardent Mills Yuba City 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filice Farms, L.P. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Ranch, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE MFarms 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley, CA 1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0769 Jacksonville 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Broken Bow Plant 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0695 Des Peres 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethesda Gardens Ft Worth 14.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anderson Custom Processing Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alexandria Workforce Center 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Culligan - Tucson 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #163 34 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.