Waste Collection · California

Palo Alto

Santa Clara, CA · ~52 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palo Alto runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Waste Collection workplace, earning a grade A.

Palo Alto: 0.4 TCR = 15% of Waste Collection BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palo Alto safety composite

Palo Alto scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

Palo Alto: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 3.95× in 2020

Palo Alto's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 3.95× 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 A · TCR 0.4 · 15% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #3/247
  • PHOTO S03967 - Vickery Env…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S03967 - Vickery Environmental (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palo Alto in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palo Alto averages 0.4 TCR (15% of the Waste Collection BLS benchmark).

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

Palo Alto TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Palo Alto falls in its industry

2,322 Waste Collection establishments

Safer than 99% 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 #3 safest of 247 Waste Collection employers in California.

Palo Alto (52 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Palo Alto
Palo Alto (52 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Palo Alto has fewer employees than the Waste Collection 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
2020 1.6 1.6 0 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 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 Waste Collection 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 S03967 - Vickery Environmental 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR S05988 - Tupelo Call Center 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04148 - WM of S California Area Office 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phil Foster Ranch 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceano Packing Company 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Ivanhoe 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brassfield Estate Vineyard 52 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 263 Aut - Greensboro 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MD-01 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Echo Powerline LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Oncor Distribution Services (DS/DPMO/PMDS, Streetlights, VM) 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 271 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 560 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 704 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 762 52 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.