Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Fortune Metal Recyling

Rahway, NJ · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fortune Metal Recyling runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Fortune Metal Recyling: 4.4 TCR = 200% of Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fortune Metal Recyling safety composite

Fortune Metal Recyling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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)
D 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Fortune Metal Recyling: 2.3 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2020

Fortune Metal Recyling's TCR rose 4.2 from 2.3 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Rahway, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.4 · 200% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #15/28
  • PHOTO Recommunity Mid-Conn
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recommunity Mid-Conn (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fortune Metal Recyling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fortune Metal Recyling averages 4.4 TCR (200% of the Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Fortune Metal Recyling TCR series: 2017=2.3 · 2020=6.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Fortune Metal Recyling falls in its industry

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 28 Bottles, waste, merchant whole employers in New Jersey.

Fortune Metal Recyling (66 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Fortune Metal Recyling
Fortune Metal Recyling (66 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Fortune Metal Recyling has more employees than the Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers 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
2020 6.5 6.5 5 0 0
2017 2.3 2.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · NJ · Rahway

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 42 employers in Rahway, NJ · 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 Recommunity Mid-Conn 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recommunity Philadelphia 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PnP Dallas South 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salt Lake City Transportation 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sordoni Construction Company 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC&Sons 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Distribution Building 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Passaic County Roads Department 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rahway, NJ Facility 4,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR RWJ University Hospital Rahway 865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wytech Industries LLC 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guest Packaging (Rahway) 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Triangle Refrigeration Co. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Transport Group, INC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NCD 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Penn National Lancaster OTW 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Benedict Refrigeration Service 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tft #550 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fox River Fiber 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE TL Service, Inc. 66 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: 2020, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.