Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing · Alabama

Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility

Decatur, AL · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility: 3.2 TCR = 96% of Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility safety composite

Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility: 0.0 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility's TCR rose 6.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Decatur, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #29/65
  • PHOTO Chemwest Portland
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chemwest Portland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility averages 3.2 TCR (96% of the Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility falls in its industry

2,838 Trash containers, plastics, ma establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 65 Trash containers, plastics, ma employers in Alabama.

Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility (33 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility
Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility (33 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Plastic Recyclers SE, Inc. Decatur Facility has fewer employees than the Trash containers, plastics, manufacturin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.3 0.0 1 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · AL · Decatur

2,838 Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 239 employers in Decatur, AL · 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 Chemwest Portland 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conwed Plastics Minneapolis 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kalamazoo Manufacturing 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metamora 1 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fulton Logging Company 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sowega Cotton Hartford 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harris 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Division Phenix City Office 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain - Decatur 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur processing plant 885 FTE
CITY-NEAR ULA-Decatur 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Fresh Plant 671 FTE
NAT-TCR Columbus Terminal-DOT 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ZF-Garrett 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Operations at MacDill AFB 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Top Brass Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Natural Resources (22) 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0344 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE United 366 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cash Saver 379 33 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.