Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers · New York

Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc.

Rochester, NY · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 205% of Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. safety composite

Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc.: 2.8 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.38× in 2024

Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc.'s TCR rose 7.9 from 2.8 in 2022 to 10.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Rochester, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 205% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #17/39
  • PHOTO ERI Badin, NC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ERI Badin, NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (205% of the Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. falls in its industry

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 39 Bottles, waste, merchant whole employers in New York.

Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. (30 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc.
Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. (30 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. has fewer employees than the Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers 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
2024 10.7 10.7 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · NY · Rochester

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 956 employers in Rochester, NY · 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 ERI Badin, NC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LOUISIANA PLASTIC CONVERTING CORP 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAUL MATTUCHIO INC. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, St. Louis-McKinley 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hemdale Farms Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE My Forest Foods 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Part 2 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.W. Patterson, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Division 50 University of Rochester 13,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester General Hospital 7,833 FTE
CITY-NEAR Division 40 University of Rochester 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Hospital 3,158 FTE
NAT-TCR Oregon Potato Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MEC Electrical Contractors Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mediacom Albany, GA 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Oak Recovery 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shining Star Ventures, inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boyd Metals of Tyler, Texas 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jakes - 2019 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reactive Downhole Tools LTD 30 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, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.