Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

500 Jaycee

West Hazleton, PA · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500 Jaycee runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

500 Jaycee: 4.3 TCR = 194% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500 Jaycee safety composite

500 Jaycee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

500 Jaycee: 0.0 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2018

500 Jaycee's TCR rose 12.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 12.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · West Hazleton, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 194% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #25/62
  • PHOTO ERI Plainfield, IN
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ERI Plainfield, IN (0.0 TCR gap)

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500 Jaycee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500 Jaycee averages 4.3 TCR (194% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

500 Jaycee TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=12.8 · BLS 2.2

Where 500 Jaycee falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 62 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Pennsylvania.

500 Jaycee (31 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 500 Jaycee
500 Jaycee (31 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

500 Jaycee has fewer employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2018 12.8 12.8 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · PA · West Hazleton

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 17 employers in West Hazleton, PA · 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 ERI Plainfield, IN 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sa Recycling, Nashville -1st ST. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dale's Recycling Partnership 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMS Mill Services - Burns Harbor 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spawn Plant 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest Mushrooms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE COLSC Cocalico Service Center 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenixville Service Building 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bemis North America - Hazleton 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR BRADLEY CALDWELL INC 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amcor Flexibles North America, Hazleton 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amcor Flexibles North America, Inc. 330 FTE
NAT-TCR Legends - Glen Helen Amphitheater 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ponca City 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Snow Peak Area 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 2 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clean Venture Inc. - Transportation 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hi-Performance Fastening Systems 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stewart Creek 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0175 - Laurel, Md 31 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.