Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Rich Metals Company Davenport

Davenport, IA · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rich Metals Company Davenport runs at 585% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Rich Metals Company Davenport: 12.9 TCR = 585% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rich Metals Company Davenport safety composite

Rich Metals Company Davenport scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Rich Metals Company Davenport: 11.4 → 16.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 16.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2019

Rich Metals Company Davenport's TCR rose 4.9 from 11.4 in 2017 to 16.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Davenport, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.9 · 585% of ind

  • DART 16.3 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO Tear A Part
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tear A Part (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rich Metals Company Davenport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rich Metals Company Davenport averages 12.9 TCR (585% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Rich Metals Company Davenport TCR series: 2017=11.4 · 2018=10.8 · 2019=16.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Rich Metals Company Davenport falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 20 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Iowa.

Rich Metals Company Davenport (22 employees, TCR 12.9) 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 Rich Metals Company Davenport
Rich Metals Company Davenport (22 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Rich Metals Company Davenport has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale 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
2019 16.3 16.3 5 0 0
2018 10.8 10.8 3 0 0
2017 11.4 11.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IA · Davenport

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 284 employers in Davenport, IA · 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 Tear A Part 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Source Recycling 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alta Alloys 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harding Metals, Inc. 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne-Genesis, East Hospital-MHS-IA/NE 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genesis Medical Center East Campus 1,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Davenport Works 1,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MLI1 1,353 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Mountain Lake 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Alden Estates of Shorewood 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR LAS - Inflight 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PCC Community Markets Fremont 12.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fisher Auto Parts - BRASE 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE US TX Houston Coml 4377 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE US VA Chantilly Lee Road 3384 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLOENCO South Carolina 22 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: 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.