Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local · California

Walnut Creek Metro

San Rafael, CA · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walnut Creek Metro runs at 953% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Walnut Creek Metro: 24.8 TCR = 953% of Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walnut Creek Metro safety composite

Walnut Creek Metro scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.5

2023→2024

Walnut Creek Metro injury rate improved

Walnut Creek Metro's TCR fell 5.5 from 27.5 in 2023 to 22.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 27.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=27.5 · 2024=22.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · San Rafael, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 24.8 · 953% of ind

  • DART 22.0 DART
  • RANK #240/247
  • PHOTO Purchase America d/b…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Purchase America d/b/a Sunrise Scavenger (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walnut Creek Metro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walnut Creek Metro averages 24.8 TCR (953% of the Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Walnut Creek Metro TCR series: 2023=27.5 · 2024=22 · BLS 2.6

Where Walnut Creek Metro falls in its industry

2,322 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous so 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 #240 safest of 247 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous so employers in California.

Walnut Creek Metro (37 employees, TCR 24.8) 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Walnut Creek Metro
Walnut Creek Metro (37 employees, TCR 24.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Walnut Creek Metro has fewer employees than the Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) 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
2024 22.0 22.0 6 0 0
2023 27.5 27.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · CA · San Rafael

2,322 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 115 employers in San Rafael, 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 Purchase America d/b/a Sunrise Scavenger 24.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recology of the Coast 24.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recology King County 24.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LASAN - Solid Resources Valley Collection Division West Valley District 24.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KP Spraying LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN - 01 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kimberlina Shop 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02121151 1,372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay Area Community Resources 1,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02621151 1,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02821151 SAN RAFAEL HOSPITAL 834 FTE
NAT-TCR Kensington Fort Madison 24.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Row Nyc 24.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mosaic Clarion 24.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Commonwealth Senior Living at Oak Ridge 24.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Builtrite Interior Construction, Ltd. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Meridian Boulder 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peterbilt of Lincoln 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Department of Human Resources 37 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. 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.