Employer · California

S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill

Kettleman City, CA · ~38 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill: 2.7 TCR = 103% of industry BLS 2.6 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill safety composite

S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2016→2024

S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill injury rate improved

S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill's TCR fell 4.4 from 6.8 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.8 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=5.0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562211 · Kettleman City, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 103% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #8/17
  • PHOTO West Bridgwater
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Bridgwater (0.0 TCR gap)

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S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill averages 2.7 TCR (103% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=5 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.6

Where S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill falls in its industry

211 industry establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 17 industry employers in California.

S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill (38 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill
S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill (38 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8

S04330 - CWM Kettleman Hills Landfill has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2024 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2018 2.4 0.0 0 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.8 6.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562211 · CA · Kettleman City

211 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 6 employers in Kettleman City, 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 West Bridgwater 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clean Earth of Calvert City 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Detroit,MI-421 Lycaste 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Ecology Atlanta 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O SHIPPING 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAR & S Farm Labor Services, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supreme Almonds of California, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bays Ranch Inc 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTL 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kettleman City CA FXFE-KTL 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR UKC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR JACK IN THE BOX 3263 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Dakota County Western Service Center 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Humble clearance center Outlet #2909 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Plymouth 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EXTEX Engineered Products, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE S03542 - WM of Dothan 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mondelez Global - Morris DC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windsor Estates Assisted Living 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vdi, LLC 38 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.