Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Brenner Recycling

Hazleton, PA · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brenner Recycling runs at 551% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Brenner Recycling: 12.1 TCR = 551% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brenner Recycling safety composite

Brenner Recycling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−4.2

2022→2024

Brenner Recycling injury rate improved

Brenner Recycling's TCR fell 4.2 from 9.2 in 2022 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 22.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.2 · 2023=22.1 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Hazleton, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 551% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #58/62
  • PHOTO Legend Smelting and …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Legend Smelting and Recycling, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brenner Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brenner Recycling averages 12.1 TCR (551% 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

Brenner Recycling TCR series: 2022=9.2 · 2023=22.1 · 2024=5 · BLS 2.2

Where Brenner Recycling 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 #58 safest of 62 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Pennsylvania.

Brenner Recycling (21 employees, TCR 12.1) 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 Brenner Recycling
Brenner Recycling (21 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Brenner Recycling has fewer 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
2024 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2023 22.1 8.9 4 1 0
2022 9.2 4.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · PA · Hazleton

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 79 employers in Hazleton, 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 Legend Smelting and Recycling, LLC 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR RECYCLE FOR CHANGE 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IRON & METALS, INC. 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2700 E. 47th Facility 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smiling Porker 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE STgenetics-PA Dairy 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE LUMA, Carolina Hangar 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Frackville 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AVP1 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Case Ready Hazleton PA 872 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton 796 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Hazleton 722 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - RNT9 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mabank ISD 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR UCP Seminole 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kodiak 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Century Laundry Distributing 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Straval Machine 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE H Nu Solar LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vortec Tooling Solutions, Inc. 21 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. 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.