Materials recovery facilities (MRF) · Florida

Balcones Recycling Sarasota

Sarasota, FL · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Balcones Recycling Sarasota runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Materials recovery facilities (MRF) workplace, earning a grade C.

Balcones Recycling Sarasota: 2.3 TCR = 89% of Materials recovery facilities (MRF) BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Balcones Recycling Sarasota safety composite

Balcones Recycling Sarasota scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−4.6

2023→2024

Balcones Recycling Sarasota injury rate improved

Balcones Recycling Sarasota's TCR fell 4.6 from 4.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Sarasota, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/25
  • PHOTO Imperial Recycling
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperial Recycling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Balcones Recycling Sarasota in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Balcones Recycling Sarasota averages 2.3 TCR (89% of the Materials recovery facilities (MRF) BLS benchmark).

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

Balcones Recycling Sarasota TCR series: 2023=4.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Balcones Recycling Sarasota falls in its industry

422 Materials recovery facilities establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 25 Materials recovery facilities employers in Florida.

Balcones Recycling Sarasota (55 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Balcones Recycling Sarasota
Balcones Recycling Sarasota (55 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Balcones Recycling Sarasota has more employees than the Materials recovery facilities (MRF) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.6 4.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · FL · Sarasota

422 Materials recovery facilities (MRF) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 504 employers in Sarasota, FL · 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 Imperial Recycling 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Carolina Holdings, LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro Recycling Facility 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleanlites Recycling Inc. 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE BBTS 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jay Plant 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anclote Fossil Plant 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longwood Operations Complex 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beneva Lakes 3,238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Butterfly- Lakewood Ranch 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR Connexis Physicians 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treasures Thrift Shop II 2,476 FTE
NAT-TCR Open Door Rehabilitation Center 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0664 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR General ThermoDynamics 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Creek WI 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE SpaceGuard Products 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adams Magnetic Products LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0613 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0285 55 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.