Refuse collection services · California

AWS- Alameda County

Fremont, CA · ~151 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AWS- Alameda County runs at 573% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refuse collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

AWS- Alameda County: 14.9 TCR = 573% of Refuse collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AWS- Alameda County safety composite

AWS- Alameda County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

AWS- Alameda County: 8.0 → 26.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 26.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2021

AWS- Alameda County's TCR rose 18.0 from 8.0 in 2018 to 26.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Fremont, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 573% of ind

  • DART 21.1 DART
  • RANK #215/247
  • PHOTO EDCO Disposal - A1
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 85 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EDCO Disposal - A1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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AWS- Alameda County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AWS- Alameda County averages 14.9 TCR (573% of the Refuse collection services BLS benchmark).

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

AWS- Alameda County TCR series: 2018=8 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=12.8 · 2021=26 · BLS 2.6

Where AWS- Alameda County falls in its industry

2,322 Refuse collection services 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 #215 safest of 247 Refuse collection services employers in California.

AWS- Alameda County (151 employees, TCR 14.9) 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 AWS- Alameda County
AWS- Alameda County (151 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

AWS- Alameda County has more employees than the Refuse collection services 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
2021 26.0 21.1 36 1 0
2020 12.8 12.2 18 1 0
2019 12.8 10.9 19 1 0
2018 8.0 7.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · Fremont

2,322 Refuse collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 348 employers in Fremont, 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 EDCO Disposal - A1 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LASAN - Solid Resources - LNG Fueling 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CWS Recogido Vega Baja 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenway Waste & Recycling 15.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Delta Farm Packing 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Truitt Oilfield Maintenance Corp. 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chino Base - Bld: 0842 - 15 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lodi Pump and Irrigation, LLC 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Fremont-45500 Fremont Blvd 21,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Fremont-Factory 12,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 517 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lam Research Corp. Fremont Campus 2,887 FTE
NAT-TCR 4769-6282-OUTLETS 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill of Colorado - Central Park 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FleetStreet, Inc. 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 240035-Bos-East Weymouth Br 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Howden American Fan Company 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westfield Center 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCSCOT 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cosmo Specialty Fibers 151 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.