Sewage treatment plants or facilities · California

Metro Biosolids Center

San Diego, CA · ~42 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Biosolids Center runs at 948% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sewage treatment plants or facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Metro Biosolids Center: 11.4 TCR = 948% of Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS 1.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Biosolids Center safety composite

Metro Biosolids Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Metro Biosolids Center: 12.9 → 17.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2024

Metro Biosolids Center's TCR rose 4.3 from 12.9 in 2017 to 17.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221320 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 948% of ind

  • DART 17.3 DART
  • RANK #65/74
  • PHOTO Compton Field Office
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Compton Field Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metro Biosolids Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Biosolids Center averages 11.4 TCR (948% of the Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Metro Biosolids Center TCR series: 2017=12.9 · 2018=15.5 · 2019=14.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=16.5 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=17.3 · BLS 1.2

Where Metro Biosolids Center falls in its industry

400 Sewage treatment plants or fac establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 74 Sewage treatment plants or fac employers in California.

Metro Biosolids Center (42 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Metro Biosolids Center
Metro Biosolids Center (42 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Metro Biosolids Center has fewer employees than the Sewage treatment plants or facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 17.3 17.3 5 2 0
2023 9.6 9.6 4 0 0
2022 16.5 11.8 3 4 0
2021 4.9 4.9 1 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 14.1 14.1 6 0 0
2018 15.5 15.5 6 0 0
2017 12.9 12.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221320 · CA · San Diego

400 Sewage treatment plants or facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 Compton Field Office 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority Maintenance 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ellison Environmental, Inc. 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CITY OF GRANITE CITY WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quad H 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CJJ Farming, Inc 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceano Packing Company LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connell Ranch 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Solvay Hospice House 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rouses Market #54 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR WIG001 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Elk Creek Forest Products 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grand Blanc Cement Products, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE HTC Florence 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE M F & H Textiles, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benton Dairy LLC 42 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.