Sewage treatment plants or facilities · California

East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater

Oakland, CA · ~259 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater runs at 306% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sewage treatment plants or facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater: 3.7 TCR = 306% of Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater safety composite

East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−3.5

2017→2019

East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater injury rate improved

East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater's TCR fell 3.5 from 5.3 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221320 · Oakland, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.7 · 306% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #23/74
  • PHOTO Western Lake Superio…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~259 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (0.0 TCR gap)

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East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater averages 3.7 TCR (306% of the Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS benchmark).

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

East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=1.8 · BLS 1.2

Where East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater falls in its industry

400 Sewage treatment plants or fac establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 74 Sewage treatment plants or fac employers in California.

East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater (259 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater
East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater (259 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4

East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater has more employees than the Sewage treatment plants or facilities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 1.8 1.1 5 0 0
2018 3.9 2.2 7 2 0
2017 5.3 2.6 9 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221320 · CA · Oakland

400 Sewage treatment plants or facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 458 employers in Oakland, 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 Western Lake Superior Sanitary District 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Bottoms Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rock River Water Reclamation District 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harvest 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Pacific - West Sacramento 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raymond-Southern California, Inc. 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE IBY, LLC 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakland Unified School District 4,473 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120301 4,408 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620301 3,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02620301 2,922 FTE
NAT-TCR Ancra Group : BA Products Columbia 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Victory Brewing Company Parkesburg Restaurant 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Duffy Bros, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tempe - Phoenix Airport (HP) 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stanley Black and Decker - Allentown 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE #607 Freehold Shoprite 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE HR Metrics Irving 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4813-48130009-Freeman Expo New York 259 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: 2019, 2018, 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.