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

PADNOS

Holland, MI · ~912 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

PADNOS runs at 181% 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.

PADNOS: 4.0 TCR = 181% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PADNOS safety composite

PADNOS 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.73 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

PADNOS: 2.7 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

PADNOS's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.7 in 2022 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Holland, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #34/62
  • PHOTO West Virginia Cashin…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 127 inj
  • SIZE ~912 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Virginia Cashin Recyclables, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Michigan employers → · Look up another →

PADNOS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PADNOS averages 4.0 TCR (181% 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

PADNOS TCR series: 2022=2.7 · 2023=5 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 2.2

Where PADNOS falls in its industry

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

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 62 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Michigan.

PADNOS (912 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate PADNOS
PADNOS (912 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

PADNOS 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
2024 4.3 2.7 47 0 0
2023 5.0 3.3 53 0 0
2022 2.7 1.4 27 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · MI · Holland

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 299 employers in Holland, MI · 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 West Virginia Cashin Recyclables, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GORDON WASTE COMPANY 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liverpool Location 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferrous Miami 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6043 912 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Sterling Heights 912 FTE
STATE-SIZE Magna International Newaygo 911 FTE
STATE-SIZE US MI Holland 11768 James St 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR LG Energy Solutions - Holland 1,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haworth HQ 1,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haworth Office 1,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR JR Automation Technologies, LLC Holland, MI 874 FTE
NAT-TCR Terraces of San Joquin Gardens 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Walk On Products 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Staab Construction Corp - Marshfield, WI 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New Star General Contractors, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tippecanoe County Government 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE 07-GIDDINGS 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE BAE Systems 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 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. 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.