Refuse collection services · California

Fresno Sanitation Division

Fresno, CA · ~171 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore Editorial, Employer Workplace Safety Editorial Team

F
Failing Safety Record: 14.5
Avg TCR: 2.6
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

The verdict

Fresno Sanitation Division runs at 559% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refuse collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record: 14.5
avg TCR · per 100 workers: 2.6
industry benchmark (BLS): 48
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Fresno Sanitation Division's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Fresno Sanitation Division's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.6 industry benchmark.

Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 562111.

Where Fresno Sanitation Division falls in its industry

2,506 Refuse collection services establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #228 safest of 266 Refuse collection services employers in California.

Fresno Sanitation Division has an average TCR of 14.5, which is 559% of the industry average (2.6) for Refuse collection services. This is significantly worse than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Fresno Sanitation Division

Between 2018 and 2019, Fresno Sanitation Division's Total Case Rate improved from 15.7 to 13.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 14% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2019, at a TCR of 13.4, while 2018 saw the highest rate, at 15.7, a spread of 2.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 2 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 2 reporting years, Fresno Sanitation Division recorded 48 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Fresno Sanitation Division's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 562111 - Refuse collection services.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2019)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

16 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 312,840 hours worked = 10.23 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark	TCR	Source
Fresno Sanitation Division (this establishment)	14.54	OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg
Garbage collection services industry avg	2.60	BLS IIF, NAICS 562111
California state avg (all industries)	5.64	OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Fresno Sanitation Division to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

2019: 21 reportable incidents · 20 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2018: 28 reportable incidents · 28 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses	Fatalities
2019	13.4	10.2	20	1	0
2018	15.7	11.2	28	0	0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Fresno Sanitation Division's reported OSHA injury record versus its Refuse collection services peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

At 559% of the Refuse collection services benchmark, Fresno Sanitation Division reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
Judge this record against the wider Refuse collection services sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Fresno Sanitation Division's safety grade?

Fresno Sanitation Division has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 14.5 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.6 for Refuse collection services.

How many injuries has Fresno Sanitation Division reported?

Fresno Sanitation Division has reported 48 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 2 years of OSHA data (2019, 2018). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.