Materials recovery facilities (MRF) · Texas

Balcones Recycling- Taylor

Taylor, TX · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Balcones Recycling- Taylor runs at 396% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Materials recovery facilities (MRF) workplace, earning a grade F.

Balcones Recycling- Taylor: 10.3 TCR = 396% of Materials recovery facilities (MRF) BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Balcones Recycling- Taylor safety composite

Balcones Recycling- Taylor scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−14.9

2021→2024

Balcones Recycling- Taylor injury rate improved

Balcones Recycling- Taylor's TCR fell 14.9 from 14.9 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 20.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=14.9 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=20.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Taylor, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 396% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #40/40
  • PHOTO SOUTH BAY RECYCLING
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SOUTH BAY RECYCLING (0.2 TCR gap)

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Balcones Recycling- Taylor in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Balcones Recycling- Taylor averages 10.3 TCR (396% 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- Taylor TCR series: 2021=14.9 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=20.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Balcones Recycling- Taylor falls in its industry

422 Materials recovery facilities establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 40 Materials recovery facilities employers in Texas.

Balcones Recycling- Taylor (32 employees, TCR 10.3) 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- Taylor
Balcones Recycling- Taylor (32 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Balcones Recycling- Taylor has fewer employees than the Materials recovery facilities (MRF) median and a higher 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 20.1 14.4 7 0 0
2022 6.2 6.2 2 0 0
2021 14.9 11.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · TX · Taylor

422 Materials recovery facilities (MRF) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 34 employers in Taylor, TX · 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 SOUTH BAY RECYCLING 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HVF West LLC 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scott Area Recycling Center 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pride Recycling Company 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heifer Ranch at Arroyo Seco, LTD 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Coyote Ranch 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC- Tulia 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Feather Crest Farm 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR ERCOT Taylor 733 FTE
CITY-NEAR 105197 - SKJV Blue Sky 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Contractors, Inc - Samsung-Taylor 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laboratory Tops Inc 301 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - CMH6 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DWA9 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DSF5 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SV Delivery LLC 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Overhead Door Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rural Health Group Roanoke Rapids Adults 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palen Kimball, LLC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sav Prosperity Drive Depot 32 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, 2022, 2021. 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.