Materials Recovery Facilities · Oregon

Portland - Commerce St

Portland, OR · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Portland - Commerce St runs at 297% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Materials Recovery Facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Portland - Commerce St: 7.7 TCR = 297% of Materials Recovery Facilities BLS 2.6 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Portland - Commerce St safety composite

Portland - Commerce St scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−5.0

2017→2022

Portland - Commerce St injury rate improved

Portland - Commerce St's TCR fell 5.0 from 9.3 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.3 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=8.0 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 297% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Balcones Recycling- …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Balcones Recycling- Austin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Portland - Commerce St in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Portland - Commerce St averages 7.7 TCR (297% of the Materials Recovery Facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Portland - Commerce St TCR series: 2017=9.3 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=8 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=4.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Portland - Commerce St falls in its industry

422 Materials Recovery Facilities establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Materials Recovery Facilities employers in Oregon.

Portland - Commerce St (29 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Portland - Commerce St
Portland - Commerce St (29 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Portland - Commerce St has fewer employees than the Materials Recovery Facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2022 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 8.9 8.9 2 0 0
2020 8.0 4.0 2 0 0
2019 6.8 3.4 2 0 0
2018 9.2 4.6 4 0 0
2017 9.3 6.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · OR · Portland

422 Materials Recovery Facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Balcones Recycling- Austin 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indianapolis - 96th St 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Recycling 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Works Inc. 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GardenScape Nursery INC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coleman Ag 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rogers Administration Inc 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Port Westward 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Edinbrook Elementary 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR el super #58 florence 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-431-Pottery Barn 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 262 Millennium Maingate Lakeside Resort 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Az (E Van Buren) Depot 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springfield Mo Depot 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE TruFit Products Utah 29 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.