Garbage disposal landfills · California

Sunshine Canyon Landfill

Sylmar, CA · ~65 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunshine Canyon Landfill runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage disposal landfills workplace, earning a grade F.

Sunshine Canyon Landfill: 7.2 TCR = 278% of Garbage disposal landfills BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunshine Canyon Landfill safety composite

Sunshine Canyon Landfill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2017→2021

Sunshine Canyon Landfill injury rate improved

Sunshine Canyon Landfill's TCR fell 3.5 from 10.6 in 2017 to 7.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.6 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Sylmar, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 278% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #25/41
  • PHOTO Kimble Recycling and…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kimble Recycling and Disposal, Inc. Crooked Run (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunshine Canyon Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunshine Canyon Landfill averages 7.2 TCR (278% of the Garbage disposal landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Sunshine Canyon Landfill TCR series: 2017=10.6 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=7.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Sunshine Canyon Landfill falls in its industry

288 Garbage disposal landfills establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 41 Garbage disposal landfills employers in California.

Sunshine Canyon Landfill (65 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sunshine Canyon Landfill
Sunshine Canyon Landfill (65 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Sunshine Canyon Landfill has more employees than the Garbage disposal landfills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2021 7.1 5.7 5 0 0
2020 4.3 2.8 2 1 0
2019 5.2 3.9 4 0 0
2018 9.1 3.9 6 1 0
2017 10.6 10.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · CA · Sylmar

288 Garbage disposal landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 112 employers in Sylmar, 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 Kimble Recycling and Disposal, Inc. Crooked Run 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transit Hauling 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03315 - Northwest Regional Landfill 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR REPUBLIC SERVICES BROWNSVILLE 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE SunnySlope Tree Farm, Inc. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Nursery 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE De Jager Farms, Inc. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Demler Enterprises, LLC 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olive View-UCLA Medical Center 2,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRM Sylmar CA 1,331 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 405 1,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR CN Sylmar 1,270 FTE
NAT-TCR Priority Sign Manufacturing 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverview Healthcare Center 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Almo Corporation, PA Warehouse 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CNH Industrial - Racine Manufacturing 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Palisades Living Center 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Contractors Inc 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Future Foam Orlando Plant 23 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaver Dam Assisted Living, LLC 65 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: 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.