Garbage hauling, local · California

Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc.

Palm Springs, CA · ~72 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. runs at 414% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc.: 10.8 TCR = 414% of Garbage hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. safety composite

Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc.: 1.0 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 18.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2023

Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc.'s TCR rose 8.9 from 1.0 in 2017 to 9.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 18.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Palm Springs, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 414% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #182/247
  • PHOTO City of Burbank - Pu…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. averages 10.8 TCR (414% of the Garbage hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=18.9 · 2020=16.5 · 2023=9.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage hauling, local establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #182 safest of 247 Garbage hauling, local employers in California.

Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. (72 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc.
Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. (72 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Palm Springs Disposal Services Inc. has more employees than the Garbage hauling, local median and a higher 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 9.9 9.9 11 0 0
2020 16.5 14.0 13 0 0
2019 18.9 14.6 13 0 0
2018 7.5 6.0 5 0 0
2017 1.0 0.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · Palm Springs

2,322 Garbage hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 114 employers in Palm Springs, 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 City of Burbank - Public Works - Refuse Collection & Disposal 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-County Industries Inc 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 603 - Hattiesburg 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayton Hauling Operations 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monterey Pacific, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arts Ranch 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greg Hooker dba Diamond H Dairy 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Desert Regional Medical Center 2,585 FTE
CITY-NEAR 694 DESERT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-694 2,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Palm Springs 459 FTE
NAT-TCR P&P Transportation (KY DOCK) 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR New Perspective - Waconia 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hp Hood LLC 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Middlefield Oaks Senior Living 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pmg Opco-Shreveport LLC 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE DRB Elkridge 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richard's Paint Mfg. Co., Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFEG-Fairview 72 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, 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.