Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

SA Recycling, Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SA Recycling, Chattanooga runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

SA Recycling, Chattanooga: 0.6 TCR = 26% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SA Recycling, Chattanooga safety composite

SA Recycling, Chattanooga scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

SA Recycling, Chattanooga: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

SA Recycling, Chattanooga's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/35
  • PHOTO Midwest Scrap Manage…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Scrap Management, Inc. SJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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SA Recycling, Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SA Recycling, Chattanooga averages 0.6 TCR (26% 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

SA Recycling, Chattanooga TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 2.2

Where SA Recycling, Chattanooga falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 35 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Tennessee.

SA Recycling, Chattanooga (42 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 SA Recycling, Chattanooga
SA Recycling, Chattanooga (42 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

SA Recycling, Chattanooga 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 1.7 0.0 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 · TN · Chattanooga

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 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 Midwest Scrap Management, Inc. SJ 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Del's Metal Company 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indian Hills Liquids Management 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lavergne, TN - HQ 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benton County Electric System 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Citizens Gas Utility District 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Providence Builders 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCC Johnson City 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Valley Oak Labor Service 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Elite ICT LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Merrick District 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Boost - Field Sales 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE BMZ USA Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guilford House 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hickory Village 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mint Hill 42 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.