Solid Waste Landfill · California

Recology Hay Road

Vacaville, CA · ~36 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Recology Hay Road runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Solid Waste Landfill workplace, earning a grade D.

Recology Hay Road: 5.2 TCR = 199% of Solid Waste Landfill BLS 2.6 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Recology Hay Road safety composite

Recology Hay Road scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Recology Hay Road: 2.5 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2024

Recology Hay Road's TCR rose 9.1 from 2.5 in 2017 to 11.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Vacaville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 199% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #23/41
  • PHOTO DRD LF
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DRD LF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Recology Hay Road in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Recology Hay Road averages 5.2 TCR (199% of the Solid Waste Landfill BLS benchmark).

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

Recology Hay Road TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=11.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=7 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Recology Hay Road falls in its industry

288 Solid Waste Landfill establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #23 safest of 41 Solid Waste Landfill employers in California.

Recology Hay Road (36 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Recology Hay Road
Recology Hay Road (36 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Recology Hay Road has more employees than the Solid Waste Landfill 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 11.6 7.0 5 0 0
2023 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2022 7.0 4.7 3 0 0
2021 4.3 2.2 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 11.2 4.5 5 0 0
2017 2.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · CA · Vacaville

288 Solid Waste Landfill employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 130 employers in Vacaville, 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 DRD LF 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Penn Sanitation Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWS of Frankfort 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Shelby LF 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 1,830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : SMF5 1,686 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02121451 1,665 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDCR California State Prison Solano 1,339 FTE
NAT-TCR MJM Mechanical, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NJ South Home Care-Runnemede 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiarco Chemical 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pearl Store 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Police & Fire Departments 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Timber Lake Farm 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roaring River Feed Mill 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pro-Tec Division 36 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, 2021, 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.