General-line scrap merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing

Milwaukee, WI · ~95 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing runs at 234% 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 - Miller Compressing: 5.1 TCR = 234% of General-line scrap merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing safety composite

Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−3.4

2016→2023

Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing injury rate improved

Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing's TCR fell 3.4 from 5.4 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 234% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #14/25
  • PHOTO Northern Metal Recyc…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northern Metal Recycling Phillips St Cloud (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing averages 5.1 TCR (234% 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 - Miller Compressing TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=2 · BLS 2.2

Where Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing falls in its industry

1,126 General-line scrap merchant wh establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #14 safest of 25 General-line scrap merchant wh employers in Wisconsin.

Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing (95 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 - Miller Compressing
Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing (95 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Alter Metal Recycling - Miller Compressing 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 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2022 6.9 5.2 8 0 0
2021 9.7 7.3 12 0 0
2020 1.7 0.8 2 0 0
2016 5.4 2.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · WI · Milwaukee

1,126 General-line scrap merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 980 employers in Milwaukee, 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 Northern Metal Recycling Phillips St Cloud 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, Brownsville-Garza 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fortune Metal Inc 2023 OSHA 300 Reporting 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CFC RECYCLEING 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cottage Grove 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCC - Appleton WI 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraemer North America - WI All Others 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Corporate 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR FROEDTERT HOSPITAL 7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milwaukee Hospital 3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus 2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR C&L Custom Varsity Jackets, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Marsing Agricultural Labor Sponsorship Committee 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Slc - Dhl 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CEMCO - Pittsburg Plant 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Air Comm Corporation 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olon Industries 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norriseal Wellmark 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turano Nevada Baking 95 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.