Trash hauling, local · California

Ecology Auto Parts

Cerritos, CA · ~620 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ecology Auto Parts runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trash hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Ecology Auto Parts: 6.4 TCR = 247% of Trash hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ecology Auto Parts safety composite

Ecology Auto Parts scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.93 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ecology Auto Parts: 6.5 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

Ecology Auto Parts's TCR rose 1.1 from 6.5 in 2017 to 7.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 247% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #121/247
  • PHOTO International Paper …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 240 inj
  • SIZE ~620 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper Recycling - Itasca (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ecology Auto Parts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ecology Auto Parts averages 6.4 TCR (247% of the Trash hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Ecology Auto Parts TCR series: 2017=6.5 · 2020=5 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Ecology Auto Parts falls in its industry

2,322 Trash hauling, local establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #121 safest of 247 Trash hauling, local employers in California.

Ecology Auto Parts (620 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ecology Auto Parts
Ecology Auto Parts (620 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Ecology Auto Parts has more employees than the Trash hauling, local 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 7.6 5.9 50 14 0
2023 6.3 6.3 39 0 0
2022 6.8 6.8 41 0 0
2021 6.3 6.3 38 0 0
2020 5.0 5.0 30 0 0
2017 6.5 6.5 42 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · Cerritos

2,322 Trash hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 126 employers in Cerritos, 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 International Paper Recycling - Itasca 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services of North Carolina (3186) 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04045 - WM of Dallas 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAW - New Haven 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DLA4 620 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mariposa County 620 FTE
STATE-SIZE Human Services Agency 620 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contra Costa Electric, Inc. 619 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 483 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 616 2,127 FTE
CITY-NEAR CACER - CERRITOS HUB 1,981 FTE
CITY-NEAR CERRITOS HUB (CACER) 1,916 FTE
NAT-TCR Jamison Construction, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR WWF 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilke Window & Door 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Chapin Custom Molding 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northfield Hospital + Clinics- Campus 620 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) 620 FTE
NAT-SIZE ConMed Corporation 620 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lonestar Forming, Inc. - Mableton, GA 620 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, 2021, 2020, 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.