Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

RMR - River Road

Louisville, KY · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

RMR - River Road runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

RMR - River Road: 1.4 TCR = 65% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RMR - River Road safety composite

RMR - River Road scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

RMR - River Road: 0.9 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

RMR - River Road's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.9 in 2020 to 1.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/24
  • PHOTO SMM Group SMR Clarem…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SMM Group SMR Claremont (0.0 TCR gap)

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RMR - River Road in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RMR - River Road averages 1.4 TCR (65% 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

RMR - River Road TCR series: 2020=0.9 · 2021=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where RMR - River Road falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #7 safest of 24 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Kentucky.

RMR - River Road (93 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 RMR - River Road
RMR - River Road (93 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

RMR - River Road 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
2021 1.9 0.0 2 0 1
2020 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · KY · Louisville

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, 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 SMM Group SMR Claremont 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PnP Portland South 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fox Valley Iron Metal and Auto Salvage 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, South Gate 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kelley Beekeeping Company 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pittsburg Tank & Tower Maintenance Co., Inc. 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE WARE Kentucky 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meuth Construction 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Clysar LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Terminal - NON DOT 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cargill, Memphis 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR K054-M001 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westlake Village Apartments 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Usmc-W Mh 520430 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Henry Mayo Newhall Mem Hosp-Fn 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laredo Plant 93 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: 2021, 2020. 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.