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

Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant

Northport, AL · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant runs at 280% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant: 6.2 TCR = 280% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant safety composite

Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−4.8

2023→2024

Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant injury rate improved

Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant's TCR fell 4.8 from 8.6 in 2023 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.6 · 2024=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Northport, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 280% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO Rogers Iron & Metal …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rogers Iron & Metal Corp. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant averages 6.2 TCR (280% 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

Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant TCR series: 2023=8.6 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant falls in its industry

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

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Alabama.

Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant (24 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant
Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant (24 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Li-Cycle AL Spoke Plant has fewer employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal 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 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2023 8.6 4.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · AL · Northport

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 48 employers in Northport, AL · 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 Rogers Iron & Metal Corp. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferrous Processing and Trading Co. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brooklyn Resource Reccovery, Inc 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative - Eugene 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Young's Plant Farm, Inc. (Farm 1) 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherokee Gin & Cotton Company 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snead Growout 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Energy Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2306 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2306 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glen Haven Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bolta US 252 FTE
NAT-TCR 1st Choice Roofing Company 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Calise & Sons Bakery 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Oetiker Batavia 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rentex Inc. Anaheim 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Proxy Signs, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Dade Clinic 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capital Rock 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaForce - Fort Collins 24 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.