General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · California

Otay Mesa Drop Yard

Otay Mesa, CA · ~86 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Otay Mesa Drop Yard runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Otay Mesa Drop Yard: 2.3 TCR = 50% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Otay Mesa Drop Yard safety composite

Otay Mesa Drop Yard scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Otay Mesa Drop Yard: 0.8 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Otay Mesa Drop Yard's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.8 in 2020 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Otay Mesa, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 50% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #87/218
  • PHOTO Parkersburg- Dry Bul…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Parkersburg- Dry Bulk Transport (0.0 TCR gap)

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Otay Mesa Drop Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Otay Mesa Drop Yard averages 2.3 TCR (50% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Otay Mesa Drop Yard TCR series: 2020=0.8 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Otay Mesa Drop Yard falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #87 safest of 218 General freight trucking, long employers in California.

Otay Mesa Drop Yard (86 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Otay Mesa Drop Yard
Otay Mesa Drop Yard (86 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Otay Mesa Drop Yard has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2023 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2022 2.9 1.0 3 0 0
2021 3.5 0.9 4 0 0
2020 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · CA · Otay Mesa

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 5 employers in Otay Mesa, 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 Parkersburg- Dry Bulk Transport 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMT Harlingen 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JFK LTL 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big 4 Trucking, Inc. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE MALAGA HARVEST SHOP 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muller Ranch, LLC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE OXNARD TERRACE 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Farms 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Otay Mesa Plant #28 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bose Otay Warehouse 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Otay 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR OMC-ODFL 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Southeastern Electric Cooperative Lennox 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mapei-Calhoun 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Adena Lakeland 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Piggly Wiggly #28/Ace #15356 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE CG Automation & Fixture INC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albuquerque Terminal 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Globe Trailer Manufacturing, Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Erie SC 86 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. 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.