Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Texas

Aim Recycling - Athens

Athens, TX · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aim Recycling - Athens runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Aim Recycling - Athens: 1.9 TCR = 85% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aim Recycling - Athens safety composite

Aim Recycling - Athens scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Aim Recycling - Athens: 0.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Aim Recycling - Athens's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 3.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Athens, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 85% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #34/101
  • PHOTO Plasticycle
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plasticycle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aim Recycling - Athens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aim Recycling - Athens averages 1.9 TCR (85% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Aim Recycling - Athens TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Aim Recycling - Athens falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 101 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Texas.

Aim Recycling - Athens (42 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Aim Recycling - Athens
Aim Recycling - Athens (42 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Aim Recycling - Athens has more employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a lower 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
2024 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · TX · Athens

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 44 employers in Athens, TX · 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 Plasticycle 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Metals Recycling - Plymouth 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fortune Plastic & Metal 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Recycling LLC Pensacola 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Headquarters Southeast 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Littlefield Feedyard 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3-H Dairy LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biomerics 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Argon Medical Devices Inc. 472 FTE
CITY-NEAR UT Health Athens 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biomerics FMI 453 FTE
NAT-TCR Antaya Technologies, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Augusta 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard Chicago Deerfield 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clear Path Recycling 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE McIntosh Corporation 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springfield Courtyard 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Antinori California Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richfield 42 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.