Highway construction · California

Recycled Base Materials, Inc.

Sylmar, CA · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Recycled Base Materials, Inc. runs at 371% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Recycled Base Materials, Inc.: 10.4 TCR = 371% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Recycled Base Materials, Inc. safety composite

Recycled Base Materials, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2017→2018

Recycled Base Materials, Inc. injury rate improved

Recycled Base Materials, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.4 from 11.6 in 2017 to 9.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.6 · 2018=9.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Sylmar, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 371% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #525/551
  • PHOTO Wyman & Simpson, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wyman & Simpson, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Recycled Base Materials, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Recycled Base Materials, Inc. averages 10.4 TCR (371% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Recycled Base Materials, Inc. TCR series: 2017=11.6 · 2018=9.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Recycled Base Materials, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #525 safest of 551 Highway construction employers in California.

Recycled Base Materials, Inc. (31 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Recycled Base Materials, Inc.
Recycled Base Materials, Inc. (31 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Recycled Base Materials, Inc. has fewer employees than the Highway construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 9.2 9.2 3 0 0
2017 11.6 5.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · CA · Sylmar

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 112 employers in Sylmar, 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 Wyman & Simpson, Inc 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Durango Construction 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HMA Paving Harrisburg Area 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Region 3 - Central Point 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE GCF 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nielsen Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Star Nurseries LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Growers Inc 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olive View-UCLA Medical Center 2,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRM Sylmar CA 1,331 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 405 1,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR CN Sylmar 1,270 FTE
NAT-TCR Rosewood Specialty Care 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Oaks Health and Rehab 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Salem Sports, Inc. 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fabrication 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Louiso Trucking (Batavia) 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Lagoon Seafood 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cornelia Live Haul 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Wales Clinic Corporation 31 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.