Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · California

La Yard

Los Angeles, CA · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

La Yard runs at 791% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

La Yard: 17.4 TCR = 791% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

La Yard safety composite

La Yard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

La Yard: 16.9 → 17.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 17.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2019

La Yard's TCR rose 1.1 from 16.9 in 2018 to 17.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.4 · 791% of ind

  • DART 15.7 DART
  • RANK #90/91
  • PHOTO Concord Plastics, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Concord Plastics, Inc. (0.4 TCR gap)

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La Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows La Yard averages 17.4 TCR (791% 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

La Yard TCR series: 2018=16.9 · 2019=17.9 · BLS 2.2

Where La Yard falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #90 safest of 91 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in California.

La Yard (44 employees, TCR 17.4) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate La Yard
La Yard (44 employees, TCR 17.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

La Yard has more 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
2019 17.9 15.7 7 1 0
2018 16.9 8.4 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · CA · Los Angeles

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, 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 Concord Plastics, Inc. 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AIM Recycling Erie, LLC 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartford Iron & Metal 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butts Recycling, Inc. 18.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Firebaugh 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boutonnet Farms 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Coast Vineyards 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE FESTIVAL FARMS 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Telegraph 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DC4 Carteret 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Rosemount Public Works 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Metal Litho Greenville 17.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics - Auburn Hills 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE North 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE HMS Interiors Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Durand 44 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.