Refuse collection services · California

AWS- Santa Clara County

Milpitas, CA · ~106 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AWS- Santa Clara County runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Refuse collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

AWS- Santa Clara County: 4.6 TCR = 178% of Refuse collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AWS- Santa Clara County safety composite

AWS- Santa Clara County scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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- Santa Clara County: 2.5 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2021

AWS- Santa Clara County's TCR rose 3.2 from 2.5 in 2018 to 5.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 178% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #81/247
  • PHOTO Freehold Cartage Inc…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste (0.0 TCR gap)

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AWS- Santa Clara County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AWS- Santa Clara County averages 4.6 TCR (178% 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- Santa Clara County TCR series: 2018=2.5 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=5.7 · BLS 2.6

Where AWS- Santa Clara County falls in its industry

2,322 Refuse collection services establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #81 safest of 247 Refuse collection services employers in California.

AWS- Santa Clara County (106 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 AWS- Santa Clara County
AWS- Santa Clara County (106 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

AWS- Santa Clara County has more employees than the Refuse collection services median and a lower 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 5.7 2.9 6 0 0
2020 4.5 3.6 5 0 0
2019 5.7 4.1 7 0 0
2018 2.5 1.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · Milpitas

2,322 Refuse collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 161 employers in Milpitas, 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 Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mega Disposal 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle - Fresno,TX 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03457 - Columbus Hauling 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE D & J Farm Management LLC 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robinson Calf Ranch 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monte Vista Farming Company LLC. 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Empire Farm Labor Contracting, Inc 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 454 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-CALIFORNIA, MILPITAS 2,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR 011 SanDisk HQ 1,952 FTE
NAT-TCR Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Panama Transfer Des Moines 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Health & Social Services (12) 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Mt. Vernon 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CellXion - Building Pole Facility 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE DRB Group - Raleigh 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrison Energy Partners Corp. 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE 078415-Denver Insp Svc Division 106 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.