Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Oklahoma

Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc.

Ponca City, OK · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc.: 2.4 TCR = 107% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. safety composite

Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−5.4

2021→2024

Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. injury rate improved

Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.4 from 5.4 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.4 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Ponca City, OK ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/12
  • PHOTO RECYCLE CAPITAL
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RECYCLE CAPITAL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. averages 2.4 TCR (107% 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

Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. TCR series: 2021=5.4 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oklahoma alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 12 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Oklahoma.

Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc.
Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Ponca Iron & Metal, Inc. has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2021 5.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · OK · Ponca City

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,320 rated employers in Oklahoma with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ponca City, OK · 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 RECYCLE CAPITAL 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sattler Plastics Co 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, Bowling Green-Graham 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR OmniSource, LLC. - Johnson City Main 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sweetwater Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE 40 Hitch Enterprises 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE WMN Minco 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawton Substation 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dorada Foods 724 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ponca City Refinery 658 FTE
CITY-NEAR 823 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 823 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Physicians Regional Healthcare System - Collier - EVS 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amano Pioneer Eclipse 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Maxton, NC - 2120 Hwy 71 N 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ProVia Booneville Facility 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE CNC Shop 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE I.V. Mechanical, Inc. DBA: R & K Air 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Houses of California. Inc. - Richard J. Donovan 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE TAYLORSPORT 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.