Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery

Taylorsville, NC · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery runs at 629% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery: 13.8 TCR = 629% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery safety composite

Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

−5.6

2023→2024

Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery injury rate improved

Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery's TCR fell 5.6 from 16.6 in 2023 to 11.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=16.6 · 2024=11.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Taylorsville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 629% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #37/37
  • PHOTO Mt. Holly
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mt. Holly (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery averages 13.8 TCR (629% 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

Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery TCR series: 2023=16.6 · 2024=11 · BLS 2.2

Where Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 37 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in North Carolina.

Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery (23 employees, TCR 13.8) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery
Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery (23 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery has fewer 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 11.0 11.0 2 0 0
2023 16.6 11.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · NC · Taylorsville

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 25 employers in Taylorsville, NC · 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 Mt. Holly 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muskingum Iron and Metal 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorado Industrial Recycling 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations-WI 13.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN PINES 1 SOW -EST 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cotton Gin 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe Growout 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alexander County Admin 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schneider Mills Inc. 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1131 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hancock & Moore Plant 1 198 FTE
NAT-TCR T.F. Powers Construction, Co. 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR A.B. Munroe Dairy Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 189 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 14-GA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 11402 Fallbrook 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colby Processing 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5282 - P82COW-LPH-Wheat Ridge CO 23 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.