Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills · California

Johnson Canyon Landfill

Gonzales, CA · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Johnson Canyon Landfill runs at 494% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills workplace, earning a grade F.

Johnson Canyon Landfill: 12.8 TCR = 494% of Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Johnson Canyon Landfill safety composite

Johnson Canyon Landfill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 12% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

7/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−8.9

2023→2024

Johnson Canyon Landfill injury rate improved

Johnson Canyon Landfill's TCR fell 8.9 from 17.3 in 2023 to 8.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=17.3 · 2024=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Gonzales, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 494% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #38/41
  • PHOTO PUBLIC WORKS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PUBLIC WORKS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Johnson Canyon Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Johnson Canyon Landfill averages 12.8 TCR (494% of the Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Johnson Canyon Landfill TCR series: 2023=17.3 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 2.6

Where Johnson Canyon Landfill falls in its industry

288 Refuse collecting and operatin establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 41 Refuse collecting and operatin employers in California.

Johnson Canyon Landfill (62 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Johnson Canyon Landfill
Johnson Canyon Landfill (62 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Johnson Canyon Landfill has more employees than the Refuse collecting and operating solid wa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 8.4 8.4 5 0 0
2023 17.3 15.6 10 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · CA · Gonzales

288 Refuse collecting and operating solid waste landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 28 employers in Gonzales, 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 PUBLIC WORKS 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCWR Prima Deshecha Landfill 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Coqui Landfill 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butler Hauling Operations and Sanitary Landfill 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zipper Farms, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crain Marketing, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maricopa Orchards, LLC 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTLAND ORCHIDS 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mann Packing Inc 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR RC PACKING- SALINAS VALLEY 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR Misionero 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR RCP-SALINAS 415 FTE
NAT-TCR Branch 101 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Mfg. Corp. 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1153 - Brick 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleary Building - Verona 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mg Millwork 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chocolove - 1180 S 57th Court 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marriott At the Civic Center 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE CNNC, Inc. dba Corning Therapy and Living Center 62 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. 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.