Garbage collection services · California

Milpitas Sanitation

Santa Clara, CA · ~40 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Milpitas Sanitation runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade C.

Milpitas Sanitation: 2.3 TCR = 88% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Milpitas Sanitation safety composite

Milpitas Sanitation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Milpitas Sanitation: 0.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.29× in 2023

Milpitas Sanitation's TCR rose 5.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Santa Clara, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 88% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #23/247
  • PHOTO S03930 - Southern Sa…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S03930 - Southern Sanitation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Milpitas Sanitation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Milpitas Sanitation averages 2.3 TCR (88% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Milpitas Sanitation TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=5.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Milpitas Sanitation falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #23 safest of 247 Garbage collection services employers in California.

Milpitas Sanitation (40 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Milpitas Sanitation
Milpitas Sanitation (40 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Milpitas Sanitation has fewer 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 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2022 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2021 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.7 2.4 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 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 S03930 - Southern Sanitation 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR S05205 - Lansing Hauling 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3330-Phoenix West Valley Hauling 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03965 - Shenandoah Valley Hauling 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 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 Atlanta # 9223 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Shortridge Instruments Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Medstar Washington Hosp Ctr 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bunzl Distribution Southwest, LP (DBA Bunzl Phoenix) 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Binswanger Glass Branch 122 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bridge at Alamosa 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1993 - Salt Lake City Ut Return Center 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0767 40 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.