Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · California

CASS, Inc.

Oakland, CA · ~151 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CASS, Inc. runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

CASS, Inc.: 5.9 TCR = 267% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CASS, Inc. safety composite

CASS, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

CASS, Inc.: 5.2 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

CASS, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 5.2 in 2022 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Oakland, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.9 · 267% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #68/91
  • PHOTO Spectrum Metal Recyc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spectrum Metal Recyclers (0.0 TCR gap)

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CASS, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CASS, Inc. averages 5.9 TCR (267% 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

CASS, Inc. TCR series: 2022=5.2 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 2.2

Where CASS, Inc. falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 91 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in California.

CASS, Inc. (151 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 050100150200 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate CASS, Inc.
CASS, Inc. (151 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

CASS, Inc. has more 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 6.1 3.7 10 0 0
2023 6.3 2.6 12 0 0
2022 5.2 1.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · CA · Oakland

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 458 employers in Oakland, CA · 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 Spectrum Metal Recyclers 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fortune Copper 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PK Metals 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4157_7921 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Delta Farm Packing 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Truitt Oilfield Maintenance Corp. 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chino Base - Bld: 0842 - 15 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lodi Pump and Irrigation, LLC 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakland Unified School District 4,473 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120301 4,408 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620301 3,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02620301 2,922 FTE
NAT-TCR Ameri-Kleen - Kentucky Branch 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutherlands HomeBase - Amarillo 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DPH8 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DVA5 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE John Bean Technologies 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMT San Antonio 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE YMCA Walla Walla 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, Inc. 151 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.