Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

MRS - Gastonia

Gastonia, NC · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MRS - Gastonia runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

MRS - Gastonia: 1.2 TCR = 56% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MRS - Gastonia safety composite

MRS - Gastonia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−1.9

2020→2024

MRS - Gastonia injury rate improved

MRS - Gastonia's TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.9 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/37
  • PHOTO SMM Group Chesapeake…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SMM Group Chesapeake, VA (0.0 TCR gap)

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MRS - Gastonia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MRS - Gastonia averages 1.2 TCR (56% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

MRS - Gastonia TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where MRS - Gastonia falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 37 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in North Carolina.

MRS - Gastonia (39 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 MRS - Gastonia
MRS - Gastonia (39 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

MRS - Gastonia has more employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.2 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · NC · Gastonia

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, NC · 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 SMM Group Chesapeake, VA 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMM Group Rockville 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carpenter Metal Solutions 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WI112 Green Bay Ecosource Recycling 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Louisburg 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE B & S Farming, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jeffery C Lee Farms, INC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Farms Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Andover YMCA Community Center 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal-J-Acres, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville Tube Company 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 093 Ames 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tappouni Mechanical Services, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mighty Tire, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Varian, San Jose 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Euclid Medical Office 39 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.