Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers · California

IMS Recycling, Inc

San Diego, CA · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IMS Recycling, Inc runs at 460% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

IMS Recycling, Inc: 10.1 TCR = 460% of Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IMS Recycling, Inc safety composite

IMS Recycling, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−8.8

2017→2018

IMS Recycling, Inc injury rate improved

IMS Recycling, Inc's TCR fell 8.8 from 14.5 in 2017 to 5.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=14.5 · 2018=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 460% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #82/91
  • PHOTO AMG Resources - Benw…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AMG Resources - Benwood, WV (0.0 TCR gap)

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IMS Recycling, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IMS Recycling, Inc averages 10.1 TCR (460% 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

IMS Recycling, Inc TCR series: 2017=14.5 · 2018=5.7 · BLS 2.2

Where IMS Recycling, Inc falls in its industry

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 91 Bottles, waste, merchant whole employers in California.

IMS Recycling, Inc (53 employees, TCR 10.1) 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 IMS Recycling, Inc
IMS Recycling, Inc (53 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

IMS Recycling, Inc 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
2018 5.7 5.7 2 0 0
2017 14.5 14.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · CA · San Diego

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, CA · 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 AMG Resources - Benwood, WV 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR INNOVATIVE RECOVERY PRODUCTS LLC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GAR Plastics, Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rohn Industries 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE P-R Farms 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE LRC LABOR SERVICES INC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acemi Nursery 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ball Tagawa Growers 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR CURT Group - Brandon 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Grand Hotel Salem 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wigand Disposal Company 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Progreso LMMM San Antonio# 14, LLC 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coppel Quill FC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE A. J. Oster East 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Hydraulics 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Care Center 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: 2018, 2017. 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.