Garbage disposal landfills · California

Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services

Sylmar, CA · ~67 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services runs at 407% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage disposal landfills workplace, earning a grade F.

Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services: 10.6 TCR = 407% of Garbage disposal landfills BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services safety composite

Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−1.0

2022→2024

Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services injury rate improved

Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services's TCR fell 1.0 from 10.4 in 2022 to 9.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.4 · 2023=12.0 · 2024=9.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 407% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #32/41
  • PHOTO Hanes Mill Landfill
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hanes Mill Landfill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services averages 10.6 TCR (407% 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 - Republic Services TCR series: 2022=10.4 · 2023=12 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 2.6

Where Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services falls in its industry

288 Garbage disposal landfills establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #32 safest of 41 Garbage disposal landfills employers in California.

Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services (67 employees, TCR 10.6) 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 - Republic Services
Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services (67 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services 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
2024 9.4 8.2 8 0 0
2023 12.0 4.0 9 0 0
2022 10.4 10.4 7 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 Hanes Mill Landfill 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Rapids Linn County Solid Waste Agency 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Disposal Model City 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3130-Loess Hills Landfill 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sonoma GVIC Ranches 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE MUGU RANCH PARTNERSHIP 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Travaille and Phippen, Inc. 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nurseries 67 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 Fall Creek Logging. Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RET-SS2 Store 32 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Birmingham Vending 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Pole Buildings 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Borton Main Plant 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Truck - Corporate Offices 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spectrum Underground, Inc. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eleet Cryogenics Inc. 67 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.