Garbage collection services · California

Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County

Sacramento, CA · ~279 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County runs at 398% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County: 10.4 TCR = 398% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County safety composite

Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2017→2018

Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County injury rate improved

Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County's TCR fell 4.4 from 12.6 in 2017 to 8.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.6 · 2018=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 398% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #177/247
  • PHOTO Evergreen Waste Serv…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~279 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evergreen Waste Services LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County averages 10.4 TCR (398% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County TCR series: 2017=12.6 · 2018=8.2 · BLS 2.6

Where Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #177 safest of 247 Garbage collection services employers in California.

Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County (279 employees, TCR 10.4) 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 Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County
Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County (279 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Dept of Waste Management & Recycling/Sacramento County has more employees than the Garbage 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
2018 8.2 5.9 16 6 0
2017 12.6 9.6 25 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · Sacramento

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,348 employers in Sacramento, 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 Evergreen Waste Services LLC 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Disposal - Piedmont Hauling 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03495 - WM of Central IA - Fairfield 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glenwood Transfer Site 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hanwha Qcells America Irvine Office 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pavement Recycling Systems, Inc. 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT San Francisco (Fremont) 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay City Mechanical Inc. 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Davis Health 10,481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Employment Development Department 8,494 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 451 5,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 485 5,500 FTE
NAT-TCR Eversource - Somerville Gas 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #182 OWENSBORO, KY 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston (W95) 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR T.G. Lee - Orlando - Bumby - DTI 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owens-Illinois, Inc. 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bekaertdeslee USA Inc Winston Salem, Nc 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PS-TYS-KNOXVILLE-PS 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conrad Morgan City Shipyard 279 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: 2018, 2017. 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.