Waste recovery facilities · California

Premier Recycle Company

San Jose, CA · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Premier Recycle Company runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Waste recovery facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Premier Recycle Company: 3.5 TCR = 134% of Waste recovery facilities BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Premier Recycle Company safety composite

Premier Recycle Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Premier Recycle Company: 1.9 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2018

Premier Recycle Company's TCR rose 3.1 from 1.9 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · San Jose, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 134% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #16/45
  • PHOTO Recycling
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recycling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Premier Recycle Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Premier Recycle Company averages 3.5 TCR (134% of the Waste recovery facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Premier Recycle Company TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=5 · BLS 2.6

Where Premier Recycle Company falls in its industry

422 Waste recovery facilities establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 45 Waste recovery facilities employers in California.

Premier Recycle Company (51 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Premier Recycle Company
Premier Recycle Company (51 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Premier Recycle Company has more employees than the Waste recovery facilities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2018 5.0 5.0 3 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · CA · San Jose

422 Waste recovery facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,102 employers in San Jose, 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 Recycling 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lee Iron & Metal Co. Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tervita Denver Office and CO Field Operations 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Excavating by Dean Larson Inc. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert Young Vineyards 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&W Vineyards 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huber Farms Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Brothers Farms Inc 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-CALIFORNIA.SAN JOSE 11,308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, Valley Medical Center (Hospital & Clinics) 7,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rosendin - Main 6,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC & Clinics) 6,576 FTE
NAT-TCR Pottsville (Papot) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntsville (Alhun) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #1225 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dresseler Mechanical Inc 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE George's Springdale Grow Out 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA010 - Pauley Construction - Brighton 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Hollywood Casino SL 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE QSI Dardanelle 51 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: 2018, 2017. 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.