Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid · California

Santa Cruz

Watsonville, CA · ~106 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Santa Cruz runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid workplace, earning a grade D.

Santa Cruz: 5.0 TCR = 192% of Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Cruz safety composite

Santa Cruz scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Santa Cruz: 2.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2024

Santa Cruz's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.0 in 2018 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 192% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #90/247
  • PHOTO Republic Services of…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Republic Services of Charlotte 4784 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Santa Cruz in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Santa Cruz averages 5.0 TCR (192% of the Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid BLS benchmark).

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

Santa Cruz TCR series: 2018=2 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.6

Where Santa Cruz falls in its industry

2,322 Waste collection services, non establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #90 safest of 247 Waste collection services, non employers in California.

Santa Cruz (106 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz (106 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Santa Cruz has more employees than the Waste collection services, nonhazardous 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 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2023 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2022 4.3 3.2 4 0 0
2021 7.9 3.4 7 0 0
2020 7.3 1.8 8 0 0
2019 8.3 0.0 8 0 0
2018 2.0 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · Watsonville

2,322 Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 Republic Services of Charlotte 4784 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Metro - Damen 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 614 - Blytheville 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S02906 - Stockton Scavengers 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE D & J Farm Management LLC 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robinson Calf Ranch 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monte Vista Farming Company LLC. 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Empire Farm Labor Contracting, Inc 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR Lockport Township High School District 205 East Campus 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Holy Redeemer Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Knolls of Oxford 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Madisonville - Police 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE EnQuest Energy Solutions 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Component Systems, Inc. 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arden Hills 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE UN1F1ED2NC 106 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. 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.