Sewage treatment plants or facilities · California

San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant

Whittier, CA · ~115 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant runs at 771% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sewage treatment plants or facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant: 9.3 TCR = 771% of Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS 1.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant safety composite

San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant: 2.4 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 32.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2024

San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant's TCR rose 2.5 from 2.4 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221320 · Whittier, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 771% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #60/74
  • PHOTO Hartford Water Pollu…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hartford Water Pollution Control Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant averages 9.3 TCR (771% of the Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS benchmark).

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

San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=2 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=9.1 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=32.8 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 1.2

Where San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant falls in its industry

400 Sewage treatment plants or fac establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 74 Sewage treatment plants or fac employers in California.

San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant (115 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant
San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant (115 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4

San Jose Creek Water Reclamation Plant has more employees than the Sewage treatment plants or facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.9 3.0 3 2 0
2023 7.1 7.1 5 2 0
2022 32.8 32.8 1 30 0
2021 9.3 7.2 2 7 0
2020 9.1 5.0 7 2 0
2019 6.3 5.3 6 0 0
2018 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221320 · CA · Whittier

400 Sewage treatment plants or facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 124 employers in Whittier, 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 Hartford Water Pollution Control Facility 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calumet Water Reclamation Plant 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Hopewell 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clean Water Plant City of Wyoming 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buona Terra Farming 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROSE & A FLC 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-CSBU - Covina 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Visalia Base - Bld: 0080 - 15 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIH Health Hospital - Whittier 3,609 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 499 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIH Health Hospital - Downey 1,130 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIH Health Physicians 819 FTE
NAT-TCR Larson Acres, Inc. 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR East Range Hospice 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 058/Nashville 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pine Brook 084 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE P & B Partitions, Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abw 2500 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #60 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE CIVCO Medical Solutions - Manufacturing 115 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.