Waste Treatment and Disposal · California

Zero Waste

San Jose, CA · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zero Waste runs at 283% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste Treatment and Disposal workplace, earning a grade F.

Zero Waste: 7.4 TCR = 283% of Waste Treatment and Disposal BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zero Waste safety composite

Zero Waste scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Zero Waste held a steady TCR band

Zero Waste's TCR held near 0.2 from 7.3 in 2018 to 7.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.3 · 2019=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562219 · San Jose, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 283% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/21
  • PHOTO Entech, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Entech, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Zero Waste in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zero Waste averages 7.4 TCR (283% of the Waste Treatment and Disposal BLS benchmark).

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

Zero Waste TCR series: 2018=7.3 · 2019=7.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Zero Waste falls in its industry

171 Waste Treatment and Disposal establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 21 Waste Treatment and Disposal employers in California.

Zero Waste (21 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Zero Waste
Zero Waste (21 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Zero Waste has fewer employees than the Waste Treatment and Disposal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2019 7.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 7.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562219 · CA · San Jose

171 Waste Treatment and Disposal employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,102 employers in San Jose, 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 Entech, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BDS Waste Disposal, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daniels Sharpsmart, Inc. Baltimore 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle - Carolina,PR 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-CALIFORNIA.SAN JOSE 11,308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, Valley Medical Center (Hospital & Clinics) 7,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rosendin - Main 6,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC & Clinics) 6,576 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakewood 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1420 PHILLIPSBURG, NJ 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Distribution and Services : Factory Service 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jfk Medical Center North Campus 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Terminix Service, Inc. Hartsville 66- 15 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terminix Service, Inc. Florence 66- 4 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terminix Service, Inc. Charlotte South 65- 36 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compression Technologies and Services : SVC-Aurora CO-USA 21 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: 2019, 2018. 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.