OC Waste & Recycling · California

OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill

Irvine, CA · ~95 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill runs at 587% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical OC Waste & Recycling workplace, earning a grade F.

OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill: 15.3 TCR = 587% of OC Waste & Recycling BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill safety composite

OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill: 1.5 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 32.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2021

OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill's TCR rose 10.3 from 1.5 in 2018 to 11.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 32.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 15.3 · 587% of ind

  • DART 11.7 DART
  • RANK #39/41
  • PHOTO Horry County SWA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Horry County SWA (0.1 TCR gap)

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OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill averages 15.3 TCR (587% of the OC Waste & Recycling BLS benchmark).

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

OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill TCR series: 2018=1.5 · 2020=32.5 · 2021=11.7 · BLS 2.6

Where OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill falls in its industry

288 OC Waste & Recycling establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #39 safest of 41 OC Waste & Recycling employers in California.

OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill (95 employees, TCR 15.3) 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 OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill
OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill (95 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill has more employees than the OC Waste & Recycling 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
2021 11.7 11.7 1 7 0
2020 32.5 20.7 14 8 0
2018 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · CA · Irvine

288 OC Waste & Recycling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, 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 Horry County SWA 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landfill Technologies, Vertedero de Fajardo 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Region 2000 Services Authority 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR County of Maui Central Maui Landfill 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Del Llano Farms 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Los Altos Farms, LLC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE TreeSource 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa View Farms 2 (Madera) 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR 6458-ZALE 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chesterfield Valley Dist & Whs 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 217 ABC Supply Co., Inc 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 479506-Mem-Crosstown Carr an 15.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE PACE Healthcare Transportation, Inc. 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Practical Administrative Solutions, LP 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colstrip 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shippers Warehouse-Bolingbrook 95 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: 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.