Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Northern Metal Recycling American Iron

Minneapolis, MN · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Metal Recycling American Iron runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Northern Metal Recycling American Iron: 5.0 TCR = 226% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Metal Recycling American Iron safety composite

Northern Metal Recycling American Iron scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Northern Metal Recycling American Iron: 4.5 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2023

Northern Metal Recycling American Iron's TCR rose 1.0 from 4.5 in 2022 to 5.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Minneapolis, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 226% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO Schupan Industrial R…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schupan Industrial Recycling Olmstead (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Metal Recycling American Iron in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Metal Recycling American Iron averages 5.0 TCR (226% 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

Northern Metal Recycling American Iron TCR series: 2022=4.5 · 2023=5.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Northern Metal Recycling American Iron falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 15 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Minnesota.

Northern Metal Recycling American Iron (20 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Northern Metal Recycling American Iron
Northern Metal Recycling American Iron (20 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Northern Metal Recycling American Iron has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale 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 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · MN · Minneapolis

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, MN · 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 Schupan Industrial Recycling Olmstead 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Genesis Ventures Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Ragtime, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Recycling Technologies-OR 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE C74 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNSGA-SEL-SELECT GENETICS ADMIN' 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bees Minnesota 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR New Britain Transitional Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lenoir 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DBL8 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CoLinx, LLC. Industrial Boulvard Facility 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hartford Iron & Metal 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Metal Recycling Toys Scrap Eau Claire 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE NY646 Long Island WH 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Plus - 0430 20 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.