Hazardous waste collection services · California

Merced

Merced, CA · ~65 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merced runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hazardous waste collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

Merced: 3.6 TCR = 137% of Hazardous waste collection services BLS 2.6 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merced safety composite

Merced scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Merced: 0.0 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.06× in 2024

Merced's TCR rose 7.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562112 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 137% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #30/53
  • PHOTO Stericycle Environme…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Fairburn,GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merced in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merced averages 3.6 TCR (137% of the Hazardous waste collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Merced TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=11.2 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 2.6

Where Merced falls in its industry

183 Hazardous waste collection ser establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 53 Hazardous waste collection ser employers in California.

Merced (65 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merced
Merced (65 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Merced has more employees than the Hazardous waste collection services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 7.4 7.4 3 0 0
2023 11.2 4.5 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 6.2 6.2 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562112 · CA · Merced

183 Hazardous waste collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, 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 Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Fairburn,GA 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Mexico 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Hanceville,AL 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77BPI 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE SunnySlope Tree Farm, Inc. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Nursery 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE De Jager Farms, Inc. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Demler Enterprises, LLC 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Bondurant Lumber 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pine Ridge Homes 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Ellington of Rayne 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR B80 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anthony Timberlands, Inc. Mt. Holly 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #78 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ridgeview Orchards 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE SPI Industries, Inc. 65 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.