Flakes, aluminum, made from purchased aluminum · Indiana

Recycling Services of Indiana

Bedford, IN · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Recycling Services of Indiana runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Flakes, aluminum, made from purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade D.

Recycling Services of Indiana: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Flakes, aluminum, made from purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Recycling Services of Indiana safety composite

Recycling Services of Indiana scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Recycling Services of Indiana: 5.2 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2018

Recycling Services of Indiana's TCR rose 3.6 from 5.2 in 2016 to 8.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331314 · Bedford, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #6/14
  • PHOTO Imperial Aluminum-Sc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperial Aluminum-Scottsboro (0.2 TCR gap)

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Recycling Services of Indiana in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Recycling Services of Indiana averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Flakes, aluminum, made from purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Recycling Services of Indiana TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=5 · 2018=8.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Recycling Services of Indiana falls in its industry

103 Flakes, aluminum, made from pu establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 14 Flakes, aluminum, made from pu employers in Indiana.

Recycling Services of Indiana (47 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Recycling Services of Indiana
Recycling Services of Indiana (47 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Recycling Services of Indiana has fewer employees than the Flakes, aluminum, made from purchased al median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 8.8 8.8 3 0 0
2017 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2016 5.2 2.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331314 · IN · Bedford

103 Flakes, aluminum, made from purchased aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 53 employers in Bedford, IN · 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 Imperial Aluminum-Scottsboro 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vista Metals Georgia 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Alloy Sales 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro Aluminum Commerce 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE AquaBounty Farms Indiana LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Remington Plant 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Francesville 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boone REMC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Bedford 818 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1026 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1026 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bedford Hospital 361 FTE
NAT-TCR GS500 - GSU - Sacramento 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dalton Facility 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AmeriGas - ACE - Yuba City, CA 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alameda Oaks Nursing Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ryerson - Dallas North 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE UG2 - 625 - Lesley University 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacifica Millcreek LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Oviedo 47 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.

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