Garbage collection services · California

EDCO Station

La Mesa, CA · ~39 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

EDCO Station runs at 277% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

EDCO Station: 7.2 TCR = 277% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EDCO Station safety composite

EDCO Station scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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 Station: 7.7 → 20.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 20.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.14× in 2024

EDCO Station's TCR rose 12.8 from 7.7 in 2017 to 20.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · La Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 277% of ind

  • DART 15.4 DART
  • RANK #136/247
  • PHOTO S03021 - Newark Haul…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S03021 - Newark Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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EDCO Station in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EDCO Station averages 7.2 TCR (277% 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 Station TCR series: 2017=7.7 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=11 · 2024=20.5 · BLS 2.6

Where EDCO Station falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #136 safest of 247 Garbage collection services employers in California.

EDCO Station (39 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Station
EDCO Station (39 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

EDCO Station has fewer 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 20.5 15.4 7 1 0
2023 11.0 8.2 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.1 4.1 2 2 0
2020 6.9 4.1 2 3 1
2019 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2018 5.9 5.9 2 0 0
2017 7.7 7.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · La Mesa

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 85 employers in La Mesa, 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 S03021 - Newark Hauling 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S10240 - Morristown Transport 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04047 - WM of Kansas - Topeka 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FCC Environmental Services Texas, LLC (Houston Hauling) 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE San Felipe Farms 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schreiner Brothers Farms 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE TLC Custom Farming Company LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonoma Valley Vineyards 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grossmont Hospital - 5555 Grossmont Center Drive 3,453 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grossmont Hospital 3,275 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0469 - LA MESA CA WHSE 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of La Mesa 345 FTE
NAT-TCR 110BLN 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FEMCO Inc 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Rite Store 393 Manchester 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Monadnock Food Co-op 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Administrative Offices 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAPEI Dalton #2 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cef Ct 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farmweld 39 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, 2019, 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.