Garbage collection services · California

EDCO Disposal - Armour

San Diego, CA · ~79 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EDCO Disposal - Armour runs at 465% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

EDCO Disposal - Armour: 12.1 TCR = 465% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EDCO Disposal - Armour safety composite

EDCO Disposal - Armour scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

EDCO Disposal - Armour: 8.7 → 14.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2020

EDCO Disposal - Armour's TCR rose 5.3 from 8.7 in 2017 to 14.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 465% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #198/247
  • PHOTO 616 - Nashville
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 616 - Nashville (0.0 TCR gap)

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EDCO Disposal - Armour in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EDCO Disposal - Armour averages 12.1 TCR (465% 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 - Armour TCR series: 2017=8.7 · 2018=10.9 · 2019=14.7 · 2020=14 · BLS 2.6

Where EDCO Disposal - Armour falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #198 safest of 247 Garbage collection services employers in California.

EDCO Disposal - Armour (79 employees, TCR 12.1) 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 - Armour
EDCO Disposal - Armour (79 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

EDCO Disposal - Armour 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
2020 14.0 12.8 9 3 0
2019 14.7 13.0 16 1 0
2018 10.9 9.9 11 0 0
2017 8.7 8.7 9 1 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 616 - Nashville 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RECOLOGY SONOMA MARIN - PETALUMA DYNAMIC 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeside 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard Disposal and Recycling 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crisalida Berry Farms, LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE L E Cooke Co 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOBI'S 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Maricopa 79 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 901LNC 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Doubletree Hilton Flagstaff 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dcm1 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ice Cream Center 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE WSP Jackson 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester Manor 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stella Link 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Manor Health Care Center 79 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.