Refuse collection services · California

Sunset Scavenger Company

San Francisco, CA · ~442 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Sunset Scavenger Company runs at 895% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refuse collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Sunset Scavenger Company: 23.3 TCR = 895% of Refuse collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunset Scavenger Company safety composite

Sunset Scavenger Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 3% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

2/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−2.1

2017→2020

Sunset Scavenger Company injury rate improved

Sunset Scavenger Company's TCR fell 2.1 from 24.3 in 2017 to 22.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 26.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=24.3 · 2018=26.5 · 2019=20.1 · 2020=22.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · San Francisco, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 23.3 · 895% of ind

  • DART 17.8 DART
  • RANK #235/247
  • PHOTO Big's Sanitation
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 361 inj
  • SIZE ~442 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big's Sanitation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunset Scavenger Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunset Scavenger Company averages 23.3 TCR (895% of the Refuse collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Sunset Scavenger Company TCR series: 2017=24.3 · 2018=26.5 · 2019=20.1 · 2020=22.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Sunset Scavenger Company falls in its industry

2,322 Refuse collection services establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #235 safest of 247 Refuse collection services employers in California.

Sunset Scavenger Company (442 employees, TCR 23.3) 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sunset Scavenger Company
Sunset Scavenger Company (442 employees, TCR 23.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Sunset Scavenger Company has more employees than the Refuse collection services median and a higher 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
2020 22.1 17.8 86 6 0
2019 20.1 13.6 82 7 0
2018 26.5 21.3 109 3 1
2017 24.3 19.1 84 14 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · San Francisco

2,322 Refuse collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,144 employers in San Francisco, 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 Big's Sanitation 23.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emterra Environmental USA -Port Huron 23.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bestway Disposal - Colorado Springs Disposal Corporation 23.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Round Rock Refuse 23.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freshway Farms LLC 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infineon Technologies_San Jose 198 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flex - Americas Center 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZHAY 442 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Francisco 18,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR DoorDash, Inc. 12,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Francisco Health 12,262 FTE
CITY-NEAR SFO - Airport United Airlines Offices 11,622 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0634 Philadelphia 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR IND - Ground Ops 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Logistics Corp 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 2024 Westover Rd 23.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zion Benton Township High School District #126 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE LeachGarner 49 Pearl 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Springfield - 0735 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE ClubCorp 442 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.