Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Alabama

SA Recycling Decatur

Decatur, AL · ~91 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SA Recycling Decatur runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

SA Recycling Decatur: 2.0 TCR = 90% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SA Recycling Decatur safety composite

SA Recycling Decatur scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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)
B 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−0.7

2018→2024

SA Recycling Decatur injury rate improved

SA Recycling Decatur's TCR fell 0.7 from 1.6 in 2018 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.6 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Decatur, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #8/21
  • PHOTO SSP Sacramento
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SSP Sacramento (0.0 TCR gap)

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SA Recycling Decatur in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SA Recycling Decatur averages 2.0 TCR (90% 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 Decatur TCR series: 2018=1.6 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.2

Where SA Recycling Decatur falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 21 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Alabama.

SA Recycling Decatur (91 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Decatur
SA Recycling Decatur (91 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

SA Recycling Decatur 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.7 1.8 3 0 0
2021 2.7 1.8 3 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2019 3.2 1.6 4 0 0
2018 1.6 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · AL · Decatur

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 239 employers in Decatur, AL · 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 SSP Sacramento 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, Beaver Falls 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR OmniSource LLC - P2NF 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JI&M Auto Shred of Louisiana 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE OFI Samson 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fite Building Co., Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at Sabic Burkville 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE SDAC Civil 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain - Decatur 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur processing plant 885 FTE
CITY-NEAR ULA-Decatur 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Fresh Plant 671 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Rollins Collegedaves Boathouse 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ahern Quad Cities 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RJ Mechanical Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Harold J. Becker Company, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0619 Ashburn 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Dcps Cluster 2 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Flagler Hospital Food 91 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, 2018. 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.