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

City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal

Burbank, CA · ~35 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal runs at 414% 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.

City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal: 10.8 TCR = 414% of Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal safety composite

City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal: 10.7 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal's TCR rose 3.5 from 10.7 in 2020 to 14.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 414% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #181/247
  • PHOTO Palm Springs Disposa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal averages 10.8 TCR (414% 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

City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal TCR series: 2020=10.7 · 2022=11.2 · 2023=7 · 2024=14.2 · BLS 2.6

Where City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal falls in its industry

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

Safer than 14% 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 #181 safest of 247 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous so employers in California.

City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal (35 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal
City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal (35 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal 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 14.2 7.1 4 0 0
2023 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2022 11.2 7.5 3 0 0
2020 10.7 7.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · Burbank

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 · 260 employers in Burbank, 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 Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-County Industries Inc 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 603 - Hattiesburg 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayton Hauling Operations 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Disney Media and Entertainment-Burbank 5,742 FTE
CITY-NEAR Media Networks 4,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR Disney Studio Entertainment 3,701 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Walt Disney Company - Corporate 3,172 FTE
NAT-TCR White Marsh MD 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Loveland One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 2024 - Monroe 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AZP038 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sixt Rent A Car - Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport 9 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Conroe 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Care of North Carolina 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bio-Rad Laboratories - Redmond 35 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.