Materials recovery facilities (MRF) · Iowa

Metro Recycling Facility

Grimes, IA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Recycling Facility runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Materials recovery facilities (MRF) workplace, earning a grade C.

Metro Recycling Facility: 2.3 TCR = 88% of Materials recovery facilities (MRF) BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Recycling Facility safety composite

Metro Recycling Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Metro Recycling Facility: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Metro Recycling Facility's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Grimes, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Imperial Recycling
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperial Recycling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metro Recycling Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Recycling Facility averages 2.3 TCR (88% 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

Metro Recycling Facility TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Metro Recycling Facility falls in its industry

422 Materials recovery facilities establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Materials recovery facilities employers in Iowa.

Metro Recycling Facility (22 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Metro Recycling Facility
Metro Recycling Facility (22 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Metro Recycling Facility has fewer employees than the Materials recovery facilities (MRF) median and a lower 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
2024 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · IA · Grimes

422 Materials recovery facilities (MRF) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 65 employers in Grimes, IA · 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 Imperial Recycling 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Balcones Recycling Sarasota 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Carolina Holdings, LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Brooklyn 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Carwash Solutions 698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Office 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grimes - Main Store 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5748 315 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 5412 - Lowell 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland Products LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamill Manufacturing Company 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Villa Haven Health and Rehab Center 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Worcester County Welding Corp. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Installation Nation, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harman Huffman Construction Group, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hagaman Memorial Library 22 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, 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.