Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers · California

Reliance Metalcenter

Union City, CA · ~61 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Reliance Metalcenter runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Reliance Metalcenter: 3.5 TCR = 160% of Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Reliance Metalcenter safety composite

Reliance Metalcenter scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−3.0

2019→2024

Reliance Metalcenter injury rate improved

Reliance Metalcenter's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.0 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Union City, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 160% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #52/91
  • PHOTO Sparta Steel & Equip…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Reliance Metalcenter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Reliance Metalcenter averages 3.5 TCR (160% of the Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Reliance Metalcenter TCR series: 2019=3 · 2020=3 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Reliance Metalcenter falls in its industry

1,299 Metal products (e.g., bars, in establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 91 Metal products (e.g., bars, in employers in California.

Reliance Metalcenter (61 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Reliance Metalcenter
Reliance Metalcenter (61 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Reliance Metalcenter has more employees than the Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plat median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2022 4.8 4.8 3 0 0
2021 6.6 4.9 4 0 0
2020 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · CA · Union City

1,299 Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 142 employers in Union City, 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 Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schupan Aluminum & Plastics Sales Kalamazoo 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 013 Grand Prairie, TX 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ENERGY METALS - 501 PEARLAND 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silveira Farms 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Brucherie Produce, LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olds Ranch 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1750 Production Office 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carson Consulting Corp 953 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis LLC 646 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4818-48180003-33321 DOWE AVE-WC 597 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis (Formerly Abaxis) 563 FTE
NAT-TCR A&D Delivery Services LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Northeast Center for Rehabilitation and Brain Injury 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland Maintenance Alaska 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Store #314 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Transpak - DIV 132 Tigard 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Stations 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMZL-NA : Syntrik 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE CR Hipp Construction Inc. 61 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.