Garbage collection services · California

Garden City Sanitation

Santa Clara, CA · ~74 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Garden City Sanitation runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

Garden City Sanitation: 4.0 TCR = 152% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garden City Sanitation safety composite

Garden City Sanitation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−11.4

2017→2023

Garden City Sanitation injury rate improved

Garden City Sanitation's TCR fell 11.4 from 11.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.4 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Santa Clara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #62/247
  • PHOTO Allied Waste Systems…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Allied Waste Systems Inc. DBA Allied Waste Services of Muskegon//Republic Services of Muskegon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Garden City Sanitation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Garden City Sanitation averages 4.0 TCR (152% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Garden City Sanitation TCR series: 2017=11.4 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Garden City Sanitation falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 63% 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 #62 safest of 247 Garbage collection services employers in California.

Garden City Sanitation (74 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Garden City Sanitation
Garden City Sanitation (74 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Garden City Sanitation has more employees than the Garbage collection services median and a lower 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2021 8.3 4.8 7 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2018 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2017 11.4 8.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · Santa Clara

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Santa Clara, 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 Allied Waste Systems Inc. DBA Allied Waste Services of Muskegon//Republic Services of Muskegon 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gateway Products Recycling 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Disposal - Marshfield 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTWS - Los Altos 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apricot Lane Farms 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central California Almond Growers (Kerman) 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Jesus Garcia Jr 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Campus 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure Storage 5,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120751 3,887 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620751 3,154 FTE
NAT-TCR Unit #1373 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kopco, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St Johnland Nursing Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mahwah 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2992 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2950 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2809 74 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: 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.