Garbage hauling, local · California

San Luis Garbage Company

San Luis Obispo, CA · ~101 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

San Luis Garbage Company runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage hauling, local workplace, earning a grade D.

San Luis Garbage Company: 4.0 TCR = 153% of Garbage hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

San Luis Garbage Company safety composite

San Luis Garbage Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−3.4

2023→2024

San Luis Garbage Company injury rate improved

San Luis Garbage Company's TCR fell 3.4 from 5.7 in 2023 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.7 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · San Luis Obispo, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #67/247
  • PHOTO AWS Danville
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AWS Danville (0.0 TCR gap)

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San Luis Garbage Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows San Luis Garbage Company averages 4.0 TCR (153% of the Garbage hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

San Luis Garbage Company TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.6

Where San Luis Garbage Company falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage hauling, local establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 247 Garbage hauling, local employers in California.

San Luis Garbage Company (101 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate San Luis Garbage Company
San Luis Garbage Company (101 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

San Luis Garbage Company has more employees than the Garbage hauling, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 2.3 1.7 4 0 0
2023 5.7 4.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · San Luis Obispo

2,322 Garbage hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 177 employers in San Luis Obispo, 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 AWS Danville 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transwaste Warner Robins 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03827 - Lima Hauling 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Industries Durham 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kirschenmann Farms, Inc 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE M & R Company 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Sun Grower Services 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camacho FLC, Inc 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bella Vista Transitional Care Center 8,119 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Men's Colony - San Luis Obispo 1,599 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Men's Colony 1,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 279 946 FTE
NAT-TCR Reliance Steel Company 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mattoon 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jerl Machine Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ralco Nutrition, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Taylor Metalworks 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Euro USA, Inc. 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regional Express ATL Inc 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Bennington, VT 101 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.