Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Texas

Butts Recycling, Inc.

Midland, TX · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butts Recycling, Inc. runs at 834% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Butts Recycling, Inc.: 18.3 TCR = 834% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butts Recycling, Inc. safety composite

Butts Recycling, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Butts Recycling, Inc.: 0.0 → 68.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 68.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2022

Butts Recycling, Inc.'s TCR rose 68.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 68.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Midland, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.3 · 834% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #100/101
  • PHOTO Recycling Concepts o…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recycling Concepts of Western Michigan (0.3 TCR gap)

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Butts Recycling, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butts Recycling, Inc. averages 18.3 TCR (834% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Butts Recycling, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=16.4 · 2021=38.6 · 2022=68.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Butts Recycling, Inc. falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 101 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Texas.

Butts Recycling, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 18.3) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Butts Recycling, Inc.
Butts Recycling, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 18.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Butts Recycling, Inc. has fewer employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal 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 68.7 6.9 10 0 0
2021 38.6 0.0 5 0 0
2019 16.4 10.9 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · TX · Midland

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 359 employers in Midland, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Recycling Concepts of Western Michigan 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AIM Recycling Erie, LLC 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR rePlanet LLC 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mallin Companies, Inc. 19.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE San Jose Cattle Co 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Petersburg Cooperative Gin 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Top Of Texas Gin 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caprock Gin Inc 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX Midland 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midland Memorial Hospital 2,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midland Jobsites 1,716 FTE
CITY-NEAR ProPetro Services, Inc. 1,666 FTE
NAT-TCR Monterey Court Memory Care 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SSA Garden Grove Regional Center 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Guardian Angels Health and Rehabilitation Center 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0040 - Medford, or 18.3 TCR

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, 2019, 2017. 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.