Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Indiana

MetalX Auburn

Auburn, IN · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MetalX Auburn runs at 512% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

MetalX Auburn: 11.3 TCR = 512% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MetalX Auburn safety composite

MetalX Auburn scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

MetalX Auburn: 7.5 → 15.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2023

MetalX Auburn's TCR rose 7.6 from 7.5 in 2022 to 15.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 512% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK #51/55
  • PHOTO Tear A Part, LLC (Sa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tear A Part, LLC (Salt Lake City) (0.0 TCR gap)

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MetalX Auburn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MetalX Auburn averages 11.3 TCR (512% 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

MetalX Auburn TCR series: 2022=7.5 · 2023=15.1 · BLS 2.2

Where MetalX Auburn falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #51 safest of 55 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Indiana.

MetalX Auburn (66 employees, TCR 11.3) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MetalX Auburn
MetalX Auburn (66 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

MetalX Auburn 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
2023 15.1 10.0 9 0 0
2022 7.5 4.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IN · Auburn

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 50 employers in Auburn, 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 Tear A Part, LLC (Salt Lake City) 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PADNOS Wyoming Metals 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Metal Recycling Becker 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reserve Iron Ohio 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Terre Haute Operations Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE AES Indiana (T&D) - Arlington Service Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE 573-NiSource-Angola IN-Operating HQ 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huntington 04 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb Health 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6074 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Standard Automotive 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6074 502 FTE
NAT-TCR Food 4 Less - Atascadero 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Embassy Suites Hillsboro 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100022 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Fire Farm 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit #2946 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE 118 - Panama City 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2865 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #1413 66 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.