Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Indiana

J. Trockman & Sons, Inc.

Evansville, IN · ~21 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J. Trockman & Sons, Inc. runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

J. Trockman & Sons, Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 128% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J. Trockman & Sons, Inc. safety composite

J. Trockman & Sons, Inc. 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

J. Trockman & Sons, Inc.: 4.5 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

J. Trockman & Sons, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 4.5 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 128% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/55
  • PHOTO Howell
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Howell (0.0 TCR gap)

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J. Trockman & Sons, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J. Trockman & Sons, Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (128% 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

J. Trockman & Sons, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 2.2

Where J. Trockman & Sons, Inc. falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 63% 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 #19 safest of 55 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Indiana.

J. Trockman & Sons, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate J. Trockman & Sons, Inc.
J. Trockman & Sons, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

J. Trockman & Sons, Inc. has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale 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 5.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 10.6 5.3 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IN · Evansville

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 489 employers in Evansville, 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 Howell 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNIVERSAL SERVICE RECYCLING MERCED 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlas Metal & Iron Corporation 1100 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PnP Kansas City Truman Road 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastside Dairy, LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Ridge 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 5 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 3 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deaconess Midtown 3,068 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global - Evansville, IN (Oakley Str.) 2,486 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global 2,017 FTE
CITY-NEAR NBC Merchants, LLC 1,859 FTE
NAT-TCR Towne Development of Hawaii Regional Office 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard Lincoln 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Volvo Construction Equipment 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LLA 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carolina Integrated Solutions, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caravan Packaging, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Electric, Inc. / Bloomington Branch 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Urban 21 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.