Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · West Virginia

AMG Resources - Benwood, WV

Benwood, WV · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AMG Resources - Benwood, WV runs at 460% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

AMG Resources - Benwood, WV: 10.1 TCR = 460% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AMG Resources - Benwood, WV safety composite

AMG Resources - Benwood, WV scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−5.8

2023→2024

AMG Resources - Benwood, WV injury rate improved

AMG Resources - Benwood, WV's TCR fell 5.8 from 13.0 in 2023 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=13.0 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Benwood, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 460% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO IMS Recycling, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IMS Recycling, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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AMG Resources - Benwood, WV in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AMG Resources - Benwood, WV averages 10.1 TCR (460% 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

AMG Resources - Benwood, WV TCR series: 2023=13 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 2.2

Where AMG Resources - Benwood, WV falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in West Virginia.

AMG Resources - Benwood, WV (24 employees, TCR 10.1) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate AMG Resources - Benwood, WV
AMG Resources - Benwood, WV (24 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

AMG Resources - Benwood, WV has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale 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
2024 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2023 13.0 8.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · WV · Benwood

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 5 employers in Benwood, WV · 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 IMS Recycling, Inc 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR INNOVATIVE RECOVERY PRODUCTS LLC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GAR Plastics, Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rohn Industries 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AWP - Moorefield Log Yard 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kanawha Valley Water Treatment Plant 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE GreenWood, Inc. - Toyota 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR WVWHE - WHEELING 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR WHEELING (WVWHE) 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6443-483024 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR 359 ABC Supply Co., Inc 19 FTE
NAT-TCR High Structural Erectors, LLC. 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RHCC Portland 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hofstra Boh 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleaver Electric Inc 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 06 Gering, NE 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meton - Houlton 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mthav - Havre 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE badger environmental & earthworks inc 24 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. 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.