Waste management program administration · California

Penas Disposal

Cutler, CA · ~83 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Penas Disposal runs at 532% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste management program administration workplace, earning a grade F.

Penas Disposal: 17.0 TCR = 532% of Waste management program administration BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Penas Disposal safety composite

Penas Disposal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 29.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Penas Disposal: 6.3 → 640.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 640.2 TCR · DART/TCR 13.13× in 2022

Penas Disposal's TCR rose 634.0 from 6.3 in 2017 to 640.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 13.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 924110 · Cutler, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.0 · 532% of ind

  • DART 223.6 DART
  • RANK #56/56
  • PHOTO DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLI…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 123 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS - SOLID WASTE (0.7 TCR gap)

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Penas Disposal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Penas Disposal averages 17.0 TCR (532% of the Waste management program administration BLS benchmark).

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

Penas Disposal TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=12.3 · 2019=152.8 · 2020=32.5 · 2022=640.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Penas Disposal falls in its industry

131 Waste management program admin establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 56 Waste management program admin employers in California.

Penas Disposal (83 employees, TCR 17.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Penas Disposal
Penas Disposal (83 employees, TCR 17.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Penas Disposal has fewer employees than the Waste management program administration median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2022 640.2 223.6 63 0 0
2020 32.5 29.5 32 0 0
2019 152.8 142.6 15 0 0
2018 12.3 8.2 9 3 0
2017 6.3 3.1 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

924110 · CA · Cutler

131 Waste management program administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 10 employers in Cutler, 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 DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS - SOLID WASTE 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Management (CON-012) 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Water WPC 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WATER DEPARTMENT 18.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunny Slope Trees 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Land Co. (Grangeville) 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Land Co. (Stratford Shop) 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Land Co. (Lemoore Shop) 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6998-69980001 3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR WAWONA PACKING COMPANY 1,503 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prima Wawona - Plant 11 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wileman Bros. & Elliott, Inc. 191 FTE
NAT-TCR 230422-Bal-Parkville Br 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 256180-Midland Po 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZCON 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR J & A Glass and Mirror, Inc. 17.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Priority Honda Roanoke 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE LA Nevada, Inc. dba G & G Systems 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shearer Richardson Memorial Nursing Home 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moore's Creek Waste Water Plant 83 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: 2022, 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.