Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Washington

Pacific Coast Shredding

Vancouver, WA · ~98 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pacific Coast Shredding runs at 636% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Pacific Coast Shredding: 14.0 TCR = 636% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pacific Coast Shredding safety composite

Pacific Coast Shredding scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

−9.9

2019→2021

Pacific Coast Shredding injury rate improved

Pacific Coast Shredding's TCR fell 9.9 from 20.2 in 2019 to 10.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 20.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=20.2 · 2020=11.5 · 2021=10.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Vancouver, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 636% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Kuusakoski US, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kuusakoski US, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pacific Coast Shredding in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pacific Coast Shredding averages 14.0 TCR (636% 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

Pacific Coast Shredding TCR series: 2019=20.2 · 2020=11.5 · 2021=10.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Pacific Coast Shredding falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Washington.

Pacific Coast Shredding (98 employees, TCR 14.0) 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pacific Coast Shredding
Pacific Coast Shredding (98 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Pacific Coast Shredding has more 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
2021 10.3 8.6 12 0 0
2020 11.5 6.9 10 0 0
2019 20.2 15.4 14 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · WA · Vancouver

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 490 employers in Vancouver, WA · 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 Kuusakoski US, LLC 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorado Industrial Recycling 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gateway Recycling Inc DBA Gateway Recovery 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Holly 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Marysville 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tatoes LLC dba Del Christensen & Sons 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCC 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inland Power and Light Company 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hawthorn Senior Living 3,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwest Medical Center Main Campus 3,464 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6994-PL600 1,970 FTE
CITY-NEAR 600 1,922 FTE
NAT-TCR Morsco Supply Co. #2017 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plantation Bay Rehabilition Center 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Victoria Landing, LLC 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Medstar LLC 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 44131c - Harahan Dc 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Chapman-Randall Dining Commons 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Cedarbrook-Allentown 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Usmc-W Mh 569 98 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.