Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Virginia

Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke

Roanoke, VA · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke: 2.5 TCR = 114% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke safety composite

Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke held a steady TCR band

Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.6 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Roanoke, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 114% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO OmniSource LLC - Tol…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OmniSource LLC - Toledo NF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke averages 2.5 TCR (114% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke TCR series: 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Virginia.

Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke (39 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke
Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke (39 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Gerdau Metals Recycling - Roanoke has more employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal 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
2024 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · VA · Roanoke

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 415 employers in Roanoke, VA · 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 OmniSource LLC - Toledo NF 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Azcon Metals (Alton Yard) 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSC Metals, Inc. - Columbus-Parsons 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ERI Fresno, Suite 108 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics VA Hatch 60 61 62 64 65 66, 950-VA 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utilities - Sewerage Systems 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE DWATTS Construction LLC 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carilion Clinic Co. 01 7,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roanoke City Public Schools 1,849 FTE
CITY-NEAR Other Location 1,808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carilion Clinic Services Co. 13 1,753 FTE
NAT-TCR Union Power Cooperative - Monroe 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plum Creek Environmental 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mactac Spartanburg 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Phenix Flooring, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Steel Plate Fabricators 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boozer Laminated Beam Company Inc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Humble Construction Company 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zoetis - White Hall, IL 39 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.