Sanitary landfills · California

Puente Hills Landfill

City of Industry, CA · ~49 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Puente Hills Landfill runs at 296% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sanitary landfills workplace, earning a grade F.

Puente Hills Landfill: 7.7 TCR = 296% of Sanitary landfills BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Puente Hills Landfill safety composite

Puente Hills Landfill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

Puente Hills Landfill held a steady TCR band

Puente Hills Landfill's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.2 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.2 · 2018=7.0 · 2019=12.5 · 2020=8.5 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · City of Industry, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 296% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #27/41
  • PHOTO Scholl Canyon Landfill
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scholl Canyon Landfill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Puente Hills Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Puente Hills Landfill averages 7.7 TCR (296% of the Sanitary landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Puente Hills Landfill TCR series: 2017=5.2 · 2018=7 · 2019=12.5 · 2020=8.5 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=5 · 2024=5 · BLS 2.6

Where Puente Hills Landfill falls in its industry

288 Sanitary landfills establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 41 Sanitary landfills employers in California.

Puente Hills Landfill (49 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Puente Hills Landfill
Puente Hills Landfill (49 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Puente Hills Landfill has more employees than the Sanitary landfills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2023 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2022 10.7 8.0 2 2 0
2020 8.5 2.1 2 2 0
2019 12.5 9.4 4 0 0
2018 7.0 5.3 4 0 0
2017 5.2 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · CA · City of Industry

288 Sanitary landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 226 employers in City of Industry, 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 Scholl Canyon Landfill 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wetzel County Sanitary Landfill 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chancellor Landfill 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04530 - Middle Peninsula Landfill 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE LAJES FARMS INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunview Shandon 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rawah-Napa County 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Farms 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morrow-Meadows Corporation 1,879 FTE
CITY-NEAR 050109-INDUSTRY CA P&DC 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR INDUSTRY_1441491 704 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kellwood Apparel, LLC 489 FTE
NAT-TCR coin division 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR WATERBURY 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rochelle Distribution Center 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Roloff Construction 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hoover Treated Wood Products - Winston 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoover Treated Wood Products - Pine Bluff 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spandet Dairy Friona 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toshiba Business Solutions - Louisville 49 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, 2020, 2019, 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.