Waste Treatment and Disposal · California

Zbest

Gilroy, CA · ~81 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Zbest runs at 460% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste Treatment and Disposal workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.6
industry benchmark (BLS)
48
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Zbest's OSHA Total Case Rate of 12.0 to the Waste Treatment and Disposal BLS benchmark of 2.6 (460% of benchmark) across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Zbest's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.6 industry benchmark.

051015 2017201820192020 12.82.6 Industry benchmarkZbest TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 562219.

Where Zbest falls in its industry

192 Waste Treatment and Disposal establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #16 safest of 21 Waste Treatment and Disposal employers in California.

Trend analysis for Zbest

Between 2017 and 2020, Zbest's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 12.4 to 12.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 3% increase across 3 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 8.7, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 14.1, a spread of 5.4 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 4 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 4 reporting years, Zbest recorded 48 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 4-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 48 injuries, 7 illnesses shown on this page for Zbest are sourced from its own 4 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 562219 - Waste Treatment and Disposal.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

15 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 250,924 hours worked = 11.96 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Zbest (this establishment) 11.97 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg
Nonhazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities (except combustors, incinerators, landfills, sewer systems, sewage treatment facilities) industry avg 2.60 BLS IIF, NAICS 562219
California state avg (all industries) 5.64 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Zbest to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 12.8 12.0 15 1 0
2019 14.1 12.4 14 3 0
2018 8.7 6.8 9 0 0
2017 12.4 8.6 10 3 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Zbest's reported OSHA injury record versus its Waste Treatment and Disposal peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 460% of the Waste Treatment and Disposal benchmark, Zbest reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Waste Treatment and Disposal sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Zbest's safety grade?
Zbest has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 12.0 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.6 for Waste Treatment and Disposal.
How many injuries has Zbest reported?
Zbest has reported 48 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 4 years of OSHA data (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.