Materials recovery facilities (MRF) · Illinois

Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc

Elgin, IL · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Materials recovery facilities (MRF) workplace, earning a grade C.

Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Materials recovery facilities (MRF) BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc safety composite

Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% 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%).

Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc held a steady TCR band

Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.0 TCR.

2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Elgin, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/22
  • PHOTO S09107 - Garland MRF
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S09107 - Garland MRF (0.2 TCR gap)

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Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc averages 0.0 TCR (0% 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

Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc falls in its industry

422 Materials recovery facilities establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 22 Materials recovery facilities employers in Illinois.

Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc (20 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc
Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc (20 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Bluff City Metal Recycling Inc has fewer 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · IL · Elgin

422 Materials recovery facilities (MRF) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, IL · 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 S09107 - Garland MRF 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NY191 Harmon New York Administrative Office 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR S08605 - SMaRT 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR S05731 - Salt Lake MRF 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Ridge 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay Creek 4 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Run 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand View Farms, LLC. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR Bilow Farms, LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pegasus Painting & Waterproofing LLC. 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Shore Electric Corp 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2000 St James Place 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Branan Lodge 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Storm Construction, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Texarkana 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkdale Mills, Inc Plant 52 20 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.