Hazardous waste collection services · Oregon

Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling

Portland, OR · ~14 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling runs at 328% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hazardous waste collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling: 8.5 TCR = 328% of Hazardous waste collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling safety composite

Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling: 8.5 → 66.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 114.2 TCR · DART/TCR 7.08× in 2023

Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling's TCR rose 58.0 from 8.5 in 2019 to 66.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 114.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 7.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562112 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 328% of ind

  • DART 60.5 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Industrial Waste Uti…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industrial Waste Utilization, Inc. (0.3 TCR gap)

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Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling averages 8.5 TCR (328% of the Hazardous waste collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling TCR series: 2019=8.5 · 2022=114.2 · 2023=66.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling falls in its industry

183 Hazardous waste collection ser establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Hazardous waste collection ser employers in Oregon.

Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling (14 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling
Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling (14 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Metro Paint- Solid Waster Operations- Latex Paint Recycling has fewer employees than the Hazardous waste collection services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 66.5 60.5 10 1 0
2022 114.2 95.2 6 0 0
2019 8.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562112 · OR · Portland

183 Hazardous waste collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Industrial Waste Utilization, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Piedmont Corporation - Danville 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clean Earth Environmental Solutions, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Trans Environmental Services, Inc. 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walther Farms OR 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malpass Farms LLC 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grants Pass Office 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE NWR Vancourver 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR North Broward Prep* 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0370 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply- Brownsville 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DeVere Insulation Home Performance 8.5 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: 2023, 2022, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.