Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Dale's Recycling Partnership

Milan, TN · ~143 workers · 3 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

Dale's Recycling Partnership runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Dale's Recycling Partnership: 4.3 TCR = 194% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dale's Recycling Partnership safety composite

Dale's Recycling Partnership scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−6.3

2021→2023

Dale's Recycling Partnership injury rate improved

Dale's Recycling Partnership's TCR fell 6.3 from 8.9 in 2021 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.9 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Milan, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 194% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #25/35
  • PHOTO SMS Mill Services - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SMS Mill Services - Burns Harbor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dale's Recycling Partnership in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dale's Recycling Partnership averages 4.3 TCR (194% 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

Dale's Recycling Partnership TCR series: 2021=8.9 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Dale's Recycling Partnership falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 35 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Tennessee.

Dale's Recycling Partnership (143 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 050100150 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Dale's Recycling Partnership
Dale's Recycling Partnership (143 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Dale's Recycling Partnership 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
2023 2.5 1.9 4 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2021 8.9 3.2 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · TN · Milan

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 30 employers in Milan, TN · 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 SMS Mill Services - Burns Harbor 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ERI Plainfield, IN 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sa Recycling, Nashville -1st ST. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 500 Jaycee 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smithport Cabinetry Partners 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4048 Murfreesboro Container 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE RMA Manchester 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Xtreme Marine Corporation 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR AADG, Inc dba Ceco Door Products 697 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ceco Door 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 104 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR 104 266 FTE
NAT-TCR 070-El Paso/Viscount 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Northstar 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunrise Erectors, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR A-1 Express Trucking, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2038 Fargo Dc and Northern Div Office (Nd) 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Point Dairy Products, LLC 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suddath Relocation Systems of Jacksonville, Inc. 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper Kansas City 143 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.