General-line scrap merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Alter Metal Recycling - Madison

Madison, WI · ~41 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alter Metal Recycling - Madison runs at 371% 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 - Madison: 8.2 TCR = 371% of General-line scrap merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alter Metal Recycling - Madison safety composite

Alter Metal Recycling - Madison scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.0

2016→2023

Alter Metal Recycling - Madison injury rate improved

Alter Metal Recycling - Madison's TCR fell 8.0 from 14.2 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.2 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=13.8 · 2023=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Madison, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 371% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/25
  • PHOTO River Valley Recycli…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: River Valley Recycling, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alter Metal Recycling - Madison in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alter Metal Recycling - Madison averages 8.2 TCR (371% 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 - Madison TCR series: 2016=14.2 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=13.8 · 2023=6.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Alter Metal Recycling - Madison falls in its industry

1,126 General-line scrap merchant wh establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 25 General-line scrap merchant wh employers in Wisconsin.

Alter Metal Recycling - Madison (41 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 - Madison
Alter Metal Recycling - Madison (41 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Alter Metal Recycling - Madison has more 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
2023 6.1 0.0 3 0 0
2022 13.8 3.9 7 0 0
2021 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2016 14.2 0.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · WI · Madison

1,126 General-line scrap merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 577 employers in Madison, WI · 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 River Valley Recycling, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cresson Steel Company 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morris Iron & Steel Co., Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LWHS LTD dba Bata Plastics, Inc. 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SunVest Solar LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mineral Point Operations Bldg 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMC Construction Inc. - Ashland, WI 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bilfinger - P&G Green Bay 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital - Madison 2,401 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meriter Hospital 2,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR EatStreet 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR TDS - Junction Road (All Employees) 1,302 FTE
NAT-TCR Beltrami County Jail 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR SWS Equipment 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Unified Insulation Systems, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc. (PC7125) 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fab Form Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prikos and Becker, LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Slavens Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Worth Civil Constructors, LLC 41 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2016. 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.