General-line scrap merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS

Bettendorf, IA · ~15 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS runs at 430% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line scrap merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS: 9.5 TCR = 430% of General-line scrap merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS safety composite

Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS: 8.3 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2020

Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS's TCR rose 2.4 from 8.3 in 2016 to 10.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Bettendorf, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 430% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #16/20
  • PHOTO Eco-Cycle 6400
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eco-Cycle 6400 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS averages 9.5 TCR (430% of the General-line scrap merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2020=10.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS falls in its industry

1,126 General-line scrap merchant wh establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 20 General-line scrap merchant wh employers in Iowa.

Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS (15 employees, TCR 9.5) 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 Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS
Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS (15 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Alter Metal Recycling - Bettendorf WHS has fewer employees than the General-line scrap merchant wholesalers 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
2020 10.7 10.7 1 0 0
2016 8.3 4.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IA · Bettendorf

1,126 General-line scrap merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 89 employers in Bettendorf, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Eco-Cycle 6400 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Metals Company LLC 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hutcherson Metals, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Firstar Fiber Inc 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gee Asphalt Systems inc 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blending Facility 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davenport 00202 2,412 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETTENDORF (410) 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bettendorf - Main Store 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR Isle Casino Hotel Bettendorf 333 FTE
NAT-TCR Tuff Shed Store 070 - Las Vegas - SW 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1.20E+03 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2023 - Savannah 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Permian Tank & Manufacturing, Inc. - Belle Fourche 9.5 TCR

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: 2020, 2016. 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.