Textile waste merchant wholesalers · California

Recycle for Change

Richmond, CA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Recycle for Change runs at 556% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Textile waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Recycle for Change: 12.2 TCR = 556% of Textile waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Recycle for Change safety composite

Recycle for Change scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Recycle for Change: 5.8 → 18.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 18.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2018

Recycle for Change's TCR rose 12.8 from 5.8 in 2017 to 18.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Richmond, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.2 · 556% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #85/91
  • PHOTO IRON & METALS, INC.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IRON & METALS, INC. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Recycle for Change in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Recycle for Change averages 12.2 TCR (556% of the Textile waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Recycle for Change TCR series: 2017=5.8 · 2018=18.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Recycle for Change falls in its industry

1,126 Textile waste merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #85 safest of 91 Textile waste merchant wholesa employers in California.

Recycle for Change (23 employees, TCR 12.2) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Recycle for Change
Recycle for Change (23 employees, TCR 12.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Recycle for Change has fewer employees than the Textile waste merchant wholesalers 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 18.6 4.7 3 1 0
2017 5.8 5.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · CA · Richmond

1,126 Textile waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 158 employers in Richmond, CA · 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 IRON & METALS, INC. 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legend Smelting and Recycling, LLC 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brenner Recycling 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holmes Road Recycling 12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE James Diedrich Farms 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Fanucchi Farms,LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN2 - 04 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyer Farms 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 134 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 635 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 147 2,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 105 2,724 FTE
NAT-TCR White River (Vtwri) 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Yorktown (Nyyor) 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Maple Grove (Mnmpl) 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MRP Sioux Falls DT, LLC 12.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Residence inn 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hartzell Hardwoods Inc. - Kirksville 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Icon Structures, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 96 Cannon Falls, MN - Production 23 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. 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.