Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Metal Management Midwest, Artesian

Chicago, IL · ~13 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metal Management Midwest, Artesian runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Metal Management Midwest, Artesian: 5.4 TCR = 245% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metal Management Midwest, Artesian safety composite

Metal Management Midwest, Artesian scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Metal Management Midwest, Artesian: 0.0 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2021

Metal Management Midwest, Artesian's TCR rose 7.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 7.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 245% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #46/62
  • PHOTO Berlinsky Scrap Corp.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berlinsky Scrap Corp. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metal Management Midwest, Artesian in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metal Management Midwest, Artesian averages 5.4 TCR (245% 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

Metal Management Midwest, Artesian TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=14 · 2021=7.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Metal Management Midwest, Artesian falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 62 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Illinois.

Metal Management Midwest, Artesian (13 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Metal Management Midwest, Artesian
Metal Management Midwest, Artesian (13 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Metal Management Midwest, Artesian has fewer 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
2021 7.6 7.6 1 0 0
2020 14.0 14.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IL · Chicago

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Berlinsky Scrap Corp. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AIM Recycling Cleveland, LLC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR D&W Salvage, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR eGreen Recycling Management 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE D2 Mt Carroll Yard 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE D5 Clinton Yard 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE D9 Belgrade Yard 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE D3 Gibson City Yard 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR OSI Group 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Catalina Finer Food Corp 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wild By Nature Co., Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-231) 5.4 TCR

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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.