Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers · Georgia

Encore Recycling, LLC

Lithonia, GA · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Encore Recycling, LLC runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Encore Recycling, LLC: 3.8 TCR = 174% of Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Encore Recycling, LLC safety composite

Encore Recycling, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Encore Recycling, LLC: 1.7 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2021

Encore Recycling, LLC's TCR rose 3.2 from 1.7 in 2018 to 4.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Lithonia, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #31/49
  • PHOTO MTR
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MTR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Encore Recycling, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Encore Recycling, LLC averages 3.8 TCR (174% of the Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Encore Recycling, LLC TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=4.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Encore Recycling, LLC falls in its industry

1,126 Scrap materials (e.g., automot establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 49 Scrap materials (e.g., automot employers in Georgia.

Encore Recycling, LLC (53 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Encore Recycling, LLC
Encore Recycling, LLC (53 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Encore Recycling, LLC has more employees than the Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, indus 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
2021 4.9 3.3 3 0 0
2020 5.5 1.8 3 0 0
2019 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · GA · Lithonia

1,126 Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 77 employers in Lithonia, GA · 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 MTR 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kramar's Iron & Metal, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alter Metal Recycling - Anoka 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELG Utica Alloys Inc., New York 1 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAO1-Corteva 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&W Robinson, LLC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Creek Turf, Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coweta Greenhouses, Inc. 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emory Hillandale Hospital - EHC 787 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Chef - Atlanta GA 704 FTE
CITY-NEAR T&J Industries Development and Contracting, Inc 651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container Lithonia 479 FTE
NAT-TCR Shippers Warehouse-Samuell 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hearthstone 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LAW- Lawrence 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Calumet Park 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Highwoods Preserve Labor, LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bickford of Midland 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bickford of Oswego 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glasscock County Coop 53 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.