Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Caldwell Recyclers

Davenport, IA · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caldwell Recyclers runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Caldwell Recyclers: 0.6 TCR = 29% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caldwell Recyclers safety composite

Caldwell Recyclers scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% 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

Caldwell Recyclers: 0.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Caldwell Recyclers's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Davenport, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/20
  • PHOTO Trademark Metals Rec…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trademark Metals Recycling LLC - Sutton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caldwell Recyclers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caldwell Recyclers averages 0.6 TCR (29% 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

Caldwell Recyclers TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Caldwell Recyclers falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 20 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Iowa.

Caldwell Recyclers (40 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 Caldwell Recyclers
Caldwell Recyclers (40 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Caldwell Recyclers has more employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a lower 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 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IA · Davenport

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 284 employers in Davenport, IA · 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 Trademark Metals Recycling LLC - Sutton 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electronic Responsible Recyclers DBA ER2 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florida 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Recycling Odessa 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Cogen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Access Energy Cooperative 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne-Genesis, East Hospital-MHS-IA/NE 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genesis Medical Center East Campus 1,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Davenport Works 1,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MLI1 1,353 FTE
NAT-TCR Inficon inc. SAS 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado - #234 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Qlarant Integrity LLC Easton 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cushman and Wakefield Humana Account 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harper Construction 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bison Elevator Buffalo 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imperial Stamping Corporation 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Phase Restoration Denver LLC 40 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.