Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste · California

Fowler Transfer Station

Fowler, CA · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fowler Transfer Station runs at 535% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste workplace, earning a grade F.

Fowler Transfer Station: 13.9 TCR = 535% of Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fowler Transfer Station safety composite

Fowler Transfer Station scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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 13.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.0

2017→2021

Fowler Transfer Station injury rate improved

Fowler Transfer Station's TCR fell 2.0 from 16.0 in 2017 to 14.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 24.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=16.0 · 2018=24.9 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=14.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562211 · Fowler, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.9 · 535% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #16/17
  • PHOTO MediWaste Disposal
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MediWaste Disposal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fowler Transfer Station in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fowler Transfer Station averages 13.9 TCR (535% of the Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste BLS benchmark).

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

Fowler Transfer Station TCR series: 2017=16 · 2018=24.9 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=14.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Fowler Transfer Station falls in its industry

211 Hazardous waste disposal facil establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 17 Hazardous waste disposal facil employers in California.

Fowler Transfer Station (33 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fowler Transfer Station
Fowler Transfer Station (33 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Fowler Transfer Station has fewer employees than the Hazardous waste disposal facilities comb median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2021 14.1 8.4 5 0 0
2020 8.7 2.9 3 0 0
2019 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2018 24.9 24.9 7 0 0
2017 16.0 16.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562211 · CA · Fowler

211 Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 15 employers in Fowler, 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 MediWaste Disposal 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Ecology Detroit North 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange Avenue Disposal 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S07469 - WMHS Vernon 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tutti Frutti Farms 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE EL CENTRO 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS 18 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Vista Farms LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bee Sweet Citrus, Inc. 507 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fowler 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR BRAVANTE FARM MANAGEMENT 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden State Steel 68 FTE
NAT-TCR Md7017-Bvsl-Bv White Marsh 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-313-Williams Sonoma 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Osmundson Mfg Co 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 2253 13.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kansas City, MO Rail Shop 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monroe Packaging - Greer 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peterson Bros. Construction 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vegetation Management West, LP 33 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: 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.