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

Gary Scrap Yard

Gary, IN · ~32 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gary Scrap Yard runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Gary Scrap Yard: 4.0 TCR = 182% of Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gary Scrap Yard safety composite

Gary Scrap Yard scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

Gary Scrap Yard: 3.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Gary Scrap Yard's TCR rose 2.0 from 3.0 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Gary, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #28/55
  • PHOTO PnP Oakland Transpor…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PnP Oakland Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gary Scrap Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gary Scrap Yard averages 4.0 TCR (182% 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

Gary Scrap Yard TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=5 · BLS 2.2

Where Gary Scrap Yard falls in its industry

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

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 55 Scrap materials (e.g., automot employers in Indiana.

Gary Scrap Yard (32 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Gary Scrap Yard
Gary Scrap Yard (32 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Gary Scrap Yard has fewer employees than the Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, indus 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 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.6 5.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.3 10.3 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.4 0.0 2 0 0
2017 5.6 2.8 2 0 0
2016 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IN · Gary

1,126 Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 107 employers in Gary, IN · 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 PnP Oakland Transportation 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Angleboard - Blue Ridge Plastics 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Auto Shredding 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRG a Division of Alter Trading Rogers 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. Gallagher Generating Station 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jasper County REMC Headquarters 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana American Water-Northwest District Borman Park Water Treatment Plant 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR USS Gary Works - Plant 4,744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gary Works 3,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRNI Holdings, LLC 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DIN2 569 FTE
NAT-TCR Paratransit Services - Medford 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Humboldt Headquarters 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rueters Elkhart 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #224 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plaza at West Covina 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dadeland Mall 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beck Farms LLC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Gainesville, VA 32 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.