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

Recommunity Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA · ~105 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Recommunity Philadelphia runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Recommunity Philadelphia: 4.4 TCR = 201% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Recommunity Philadelphia safety composite

Recommunity Philadelphia scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Recommunity Philadelphia: 1.6 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.88× in 2018

Recommunity Philadelphia's TCR rose 9.5 from 1.6 in 2016 to 11.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Philadelphia, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.4 · 201% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #26/62
  • PHOTO Fortune Metal Recyling
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fortune Metal Recyling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Recommunity Philadelphia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Recommunity Philadelphia averages 4.4 TCR (201% 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

Recommunity Philadelphia TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=11.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Recommunity Philadelphia falls in its industry

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

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 62 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Pennsylvania.

Recommunity Philadelphia (105 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 020406080100120 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Recommunity Philadelphia
Recommunity Philadelphia (105 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Recommunity Philadelphia 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
2018 11.1 8.3 8 0 0
2017 0.6 0.6 4 0 0
2016 1.6 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · PA · Philadelphia

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,431 employers in Philadelphia, PA · 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 Fortune Metal Recyling 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recommunity Mid-Conn 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PnP Dallas South 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salt Lake City Transportation 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, Limerick Station 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lehigh Valley Site Contractors 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE DDP Roofing Services Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE G.R. Noto Electrical Construction, Inc. 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIVE BELOW INC 19,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital of University of Pennsylvania 13,423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Hospital 9,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Campus 9,129 FTE
NAT-TCR Schu West 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HopeTree Family Services 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR M & B Asphalt Co., Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Entira Family Cliics - White Bear Lake - Bellaire 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lunseth Plumbing & Heating 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Overland Park Nursing Rehab 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE KCP&L - Sibley Generating Facility 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trisun Care Center Northeast El Paso 105 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.