Material recovery facility · California

South Bay Recycling

San Carlos, CA · ~75 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Bay Recycling runs at 390% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Material recovery facility workplace, earning a grade F.

South Bay Recycling: 10.1 TCR = 390% of Material recovery facility BLS 2.6 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Bay Recycling safety composite

South Bay Recycling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

South Bay Recycling: 5.3 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2022

South Bay Recycling's TCR rose 3.3 from 5.3 in 2017 to 8.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · San Carlos, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 390% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #33/45
  • PHOTO Scott Area Recycling…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scott Area Recycling Center (0.1 TCR gap)

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South Bay Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Bay Recycling averages 10.1 TCR (390% of the Material recovery facility BLS benchmark).

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

South Bay Recycling TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=15.4 · 2020=13.1 · 2021=13.3 · 2022=8.6 · BLS 2.6

Where South Bay Recycling falls in its industry

422 Material recovery facility establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 45 Material recovery facility employers in California.

South Bay Recycling (75 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate South Bay Recycling
South Bay Recycling (75 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

South Bay Recycling has more employees than the Material recovery facility median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2022 8.6 4.3 6 0 0
2021 13.3 8.9 9 0 0
2020 13.1 8.7 9 0 0
2019 15.4 10.3 12 0 0
2018 5.2 5.2 4 0 0
2017 5.3 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · CA · San Carlos

422 Material recovery facility employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 57 employers in San Carlos, 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 Scott Area Recycling Center 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mazza Recycling Services Ltd. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilco Recycling 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Balcones Recycling- Taylor 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunset Farms, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Managment, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTVIEW BERRY FARMS 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE DJRAS CORP DBA PRIME HARVEST CONTRACTING 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rudolph and Sletten 686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Medical Foundation (30507) 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10145) 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Mateo County Transit District 293 FTE
NAT-TCR Louis Industries 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 161704-Collinsville Po 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 165791-Oak-South Station Br 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 016120-Odenville Po 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Auberge at Plano 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE AWC Portland 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3495-10DP115 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE AML Riverside 75 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: 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.