Materials recovery facilities (MRF) · Texas

Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc

El Paso, TX · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Materials recovery facilities (MRF) workplace, earning a grade F.

Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc: 5.4 TCR = 208% of Materials recovery facilities (MRF) BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc safety composite

Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc: 2.1 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.93× in 2022

Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc's TCR rose 8.3 from 2.1 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · El Paso, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 208% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #30/40
  • PHOTO Auburndale
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Auburndale (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc averages 5.4 TCR (208% of the Materials recovery facilities (MRF) BLS benchmark).

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

Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=2.1 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=4.2 · 2022=10.4 · BLS 2.6

Where Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc falls in its industry

422 Materials recovery facilities establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 40 Materials recovery facilities employers in Texas.

Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc (48 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc
Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc (48 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Lopez Scrap Metal, Inc has more employees than the Materials recovery facilities (MRF) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2022 10.4 10.4 1 0 0
2020 4.2 2.1 2 0 0
2019 8.3 8.3 4 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · TX · El Paso

422 Materials recovery facilities (MRF) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 974 employers in El Paso, TX · 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 Auburndale 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robstown Facility 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wellmark 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Revolution Recovery Delaware LLC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SAN ANTONIO SOD FARM 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUPPORT SERVICES 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE WRANGLER FEED YARD 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kempenaar Dairy LLC 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Paso 2,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alegre Home Health Care, LLC EL PASO 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 1,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR MVT Services, LLC 1,798 FTE
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0268 ConAgra Foods Inc. - Quincy 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HG386 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SuperMax Dorado 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR All Counties Glass-North 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Roofing, LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Good Samaritan Society - Westbrook 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center South - EVS 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rainbow Valley Orchards 48 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.