Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC

New Castle, PA · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC runs at 567% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC: 12.5 TCR = 567% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC safety composite

Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC: 7.4 → 17.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2022

Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC's TCR rose 10.2 from 7.4 in 2021 to 17.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · New Castle, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 567% of ind

  • DART 14.4 DART
  • RANK #59/62
  • PHOTO Metro Metals Northwest
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metro Metals Northwest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC averages 12.5 TCR (567% 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

Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC TCR series: 2021=7.4 · 2022=17.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 62 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Pennsylvania.

Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC (49 employees, TCR 12.5) 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 Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC
Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC (49 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Ben Weitsman & Son of New Castle LLC has more 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
2022 17.6 14.4 11 0 0
2021 7.4 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · PA · New Castle

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 91 employers in New Castle, PA · 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 Metro Metals Northwest 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shine Bros Corp 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holmes Road Recycling 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IRON & METALS, INC. 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bonnie Brae Fruit Farms, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE R & L Orchard Co. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vallorani Mushrooms 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Story of PA- Smithfield (AWH) 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Jameson 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR DON 805 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Castle 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2287 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Package Design & Supply Co.-Main Facility 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Central Hotel San Francisco 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Deroose Plants 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Minnequa Medicenter 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 8542-West Texas Operations 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vernon Woods 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE MilliporeSigma - Barton 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bed Bath and Beyond Bridgewater 49 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: 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.