Steel Recycling · Montana

Branch 08

Kalispell, MT · ~24 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Branch 08 runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel Recycling workplace, earning a grade D.

Branch 08: 4.3 TCR = 197% of Steel Recycling BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Branch 08 safety composite

Branch 08 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Branch 08: 0.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

Branch 08's TCR rose 6.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Kalispell, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 197% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK P46
  • PHOTO OmniSource LLC - NOD…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OmniSource LLC - NOD Trucking (0.0 TCR gap)

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Branch 08 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Branch 08 averages 4.3 TCR (197% of the Steel Recycling BLS benchmark).

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

Branch 08 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.5 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Branch 08 falls in its industry

1,126 Steel Recycling establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Branch 08 (24 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Branch 08
Branch 08 (24 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Branch 08 has fewer employees than the Steel Recycling 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 6.1 3.0 2 0 0
2023 6.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2018 7.8 3.9 2 0 0
2017 8.5 8.5 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · MT · Kalispell

1,126 Steel Recycling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 117 employers in Kalispell, MT · 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 OmniSource LLC - NOD Trucking 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niles Iron & Metal Co., LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knoxville Recycle 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alter Metal Recycling - Behr Iron and Metal - Rockford 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garden City Harvest 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE GNW INC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Energy West Montana-Main Office 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hardy Construction Co. 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kalispell Regional Medical Center 2,715 FTE
CITY-NEAR Logan Health Medical Center (formerly Kalispell Regional Medical Center) 2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Logan Health (formerly Kalispell Regional Healthcare-System) 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR MTK01, Applied Materials, Semi Tool Main 406 FTE
NAT-TCR B.R. Kreider & Son, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dysinger Inc. (Webster) 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Burnham Store 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Airlite Plastics Co. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Equipment Co 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE MOSL8 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big River Resources, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 28-Oct 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.