Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Plasticycle

Nashville, TN · ~21 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plasticycle runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Plasticycle: 1.9 TCR = 85% of Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plasticycle safety composite

Plasticycle scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−4.4

2019→2023

Plasticycle injury rate improved

Plasticycle's TCR fell 4.4 from 4.4 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=5.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Nashville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 85% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/35
  • PHOTO Aim Recycling - Athens
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aim Recycling - Athens (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plasticycle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plasticycle averages 1.9 TCR (85% of the Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Plasticycle TCR series: 2019=4.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=5 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Plasticycle falls in its industry

1,126 Plastics scrap merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 35 Plastics scrap merchant wholes employers in Tennessee.

Plasticycle (21 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Plasticycle
Plasticycle (21 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Plasticycle has fewer employees than the Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.4 4.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · TN · Nashville

1,126 Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, TN · 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 Aim Recycling - Athens 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, Savannah 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, Davie 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ER2 Mesa 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SOUTH TEXAS FARM 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenpoint Ag- Gin & Warehouse 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson Pest Control, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Obion County Growout 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Ced/Evansville Supply (Pc2285) 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR OrthoCare Medical Equipment, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NewRoads Environmental 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Greenbrier Hotel 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eventworks Jacksonville 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Akron Bearing Co., Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dover Insulation, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus Metals Industries 21 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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