Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

River Metals Recycling - Ashland

Ashland, KY · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

River Metals Recycling - Ashland runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

River Metals Recycling - Ashland: 0.7 TCR = 34% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

River Metals Recycling - Ashland safety composite

River Metals Recycling - Ashland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

River Metals Recycling - Ashland: 0.0 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2024

River Metals Recycling - Ashland's TCR rose 2.2 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Ashland, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 34% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #3/24
  • PHOTO United Scrap Metal M…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Scrap Metal MO, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Kentucky employers → · Look up another →

River Metals Recycling - Ashland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows River Metals Recycling - Ashland averages 0.7 TCR (34% 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

River Metals Recycling - Ashland TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 2.2

Where River Metals Recycling - Ashland falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 24 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Kentucky.

River Metals Recycling - Ashland (45 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate River Metals Recycling - Ashland
River Metals Recycling - Ashland (45 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

River Metals Recycling - Ashland has more employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a lower 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
2024 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · KY · Ashland

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 79 employers in Ashland, KY · 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 United Scrap Metal MO, LLC. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Recycling Joplin 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OmniSource LLC - Heavy Media 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kentucky - Metals 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE PMI Field 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLAYTON WATKINS CONSTRUCTION CO INC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Kentucky Construction 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kings Daughters Medical Center 4,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital 1,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1426 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1426 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Aria Health Torresdale Coff 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TK Elevator San Francisco 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Manufacturing Services, LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TMX2445 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Englewood Marketing Group - CA 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arlington A36, TX 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pave-Rite, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manitou Concrete 45 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. 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.