Garbage collection services · California

EDCO Disposal - A1

San Diego, CA · ~103 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EDCO Disposal - A1 runs at 574% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

EDCO Disposal - A1: 14.9 TCR = 574% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EDCO Disposal - A1 safety composite

EDCO Disposal - A1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

−1.5

2021→2024

EDCO Disposal - A1 injury rate improved

EDCO Disposal - A1's TCR fell 1.5 from 19.1 in 2021 to 17.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=19.1 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=12.4 · 2024=17.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 574% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #216/247
  • PHOTO LASAN - Solid Resour…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 78 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LASAN - Solid Resources - LNG Fueling (0.0 TCR gap)

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EDCO Disposal - A1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EDCO Disposal - A1 averages 14.9 TCR (574% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

EDCO Disposal - A1 TCR series: 2021=19.1 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=12.4 · 2024=17.6 · BLS 2.6

Where EDCO Disposal - A1 falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #216 safest of 247 Garbage collection services employers in California.

EDCO Disposal - A1 (103 employees, TCR 14.9) 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 EDCO Disposal - A1
EDCO Disposal - A1 (103 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

EDCO Disposal - A1 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
2024 17.6 11.2 22 0 0
2023 12.4 7.5 18 0 0
2022 10.6 9.3 15 1 0
2021 19.1 15.8 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · San Diego

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 LASAN - Solid Resources - LNG Fueling 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWS- Alameda County 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CWS Recogido Vega Baja 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenway Waste & Recycling 15.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE T&A Onions - Huron - Harvest 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Macdoel Fields 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexandra Dates Inc 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE DiMare Company 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Natural Gas Utility District of Hawkins County 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgerton Forge, Inc. 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sam S. Smucker & Sons, Inc. Lancaster 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Armstrong Ambulance Service 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE D.P. Tool & Machine, Inc. 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lindenmeyr Teterboro 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE PPC Property Services LLC 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Parkway 103 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. 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.