Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Michael Brothers Companies

Pittsburgh, PA · ~85 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michael Brothers Companies runs at 539% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Michael Brothers Companies: 11.9 TCR = 539% of Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michael Brothers Companies safety composite

Michael Brothers Companies scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.7

2022→2023

Michael Brothers Companies injury rate improved

Michael Brothers Companies's TCR fell 9.7 from 16.7 in 2022 to 7.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=16.7 · 2023=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Pittsburgh, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 539% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #57/62
  • PHOTO ELG Utica Alloys
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ELG Utica Alloys (0.0 TCR gap)

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Michael Brothers Companies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michael Brothers Companies averages 11.9 TCR (539% 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

Michael Brothers Companies TCR series: 2022=16.7 · 2023=7 · BLS 2.2

Where Michael Brothers Companies falls in its industry

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 62 Bottles, waste, merchant whole employers in Pennsylvania.

Michael Brothers Companies (85 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Michael Brothers Companies
Michael Brothers Companies (85 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Michael Brothers Companies has more 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
2023 7.0 3.5 4 0 0
2022 16.7 10.0 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · PA · Pittsburgh

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,170 employers in Pittsburgh, PA · 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 ELG Utica Alloys 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geomet Recycling 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Guy Recycling 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2700 E. 47th Facility 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bear Mountain Orchards, Inc. 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE SFC System Facility Center 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE UTY - MidAtlantic - Harrisburg,PA 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Buncher Company 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 FTE
NAT-TCR St Ann's Home 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Mechanical 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand JiVante 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Battle Ground Store 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stokes Motors Inc 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE America's Thrift Store #10 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kentucky Chrome Works 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jim Mlady Nissan 85 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.