Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Midwest Iron & Metal Company

Dayton, OH · ~64 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Iron & Metal Company runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Midwest Iron & Metal Company: 4.2 TCR = 193% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Iron & Metal Company safety composite

Midwest Iron & Metal Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Midwest Iron & Metal Company: 5.0 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2022

Midwest Iron & Metal Company's TCR rose 0.5 from 5.0 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Dayton, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 193% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #43/79
  • PHOTO Sims Limited Monesse…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sims Limited Monessen, PA Alumisource (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest Iron & Metal Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Iron & Metal Company averages 4.2 TCR (193% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Iron & Metal Company TCR series: 2016=5 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=5.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Midwest Iron & Metal Company falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 79 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Ohio.

Midwest Iron & Metal Company (64 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Midwest Iron & Metal Company
Midwest Iron & Metal Company (64 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Midwest Iron & Metal Company has more employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal 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
2022 5.4 2.7 3 1 0
2021 4.2 2.8 3 0 0
2020 4.4 0.0 3 0 0
2019 4.9 0.0 3 0 0
2018 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.0 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · OH · Dayton

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 599 employers in Dayton, OH · 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 Sims Limited Monessen, PA Alumisource 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-Miss Services 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Recycling Technologies-TX 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMS Blue Island 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wm. A. Natorp Company 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE TIMBUK FARMS INC 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE GreenTop Acres, LLC 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chillicothe Service Center 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miami Valley Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Dayton 5,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dayton Children's Hospital 3,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR CareSource Management Services LLC 3,172 FTE
NAT-TCR Double V FLC, INC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR EKS Group LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Heights office 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GRD 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Range Mental Health Center -Perpich 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Beverages LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE DP Concrete Products, LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smoky Mountain Health & Rehabilitation 64 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.