Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Scrap Yard

Birmingham, AL · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Scrap Yard runs at 661% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Scrap Yard: 14.6 TCR = 661% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Scrap Yard safety composite

Scrap Yard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

−11.8

2016→2017

Scrap Yard injury rate improved

Scrap Yard's TCR fell 11.8 from 20.4 in 2016 to 8.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 20.4 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=20.4 · 2017=8.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.6 · 661% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #21/21
  • PHOTO Pacific Recycling
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Recycling (0.0 TCR gap)

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

Scrap Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Scrap Yard averages 14.6 TCR (661% 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

Scrap Yard TCR series: 2016=20.4 · 2017=8.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Scrap Yard falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #21 safest of 21 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Alabama.

Scrap Yard (25 employees, TCR 14.6) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Scrap Yard
Scrap Yard (25 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Scrap Yard 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
2017 8.7 8.7 3 0 0
2016 20.4 20.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · AL · Birmingham

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, 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 Pacific Recycling 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recleim Nova LLC - MD 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ERI Sumner, WA 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avanti Environmental Group, Inc. 14.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Franklin Electric Cooperattive 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE NextGen Industrial, LLC. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tutwiler Residence Hall 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE 250 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-PHX-PHOENIX-PD 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden Park Medical Center 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR El Paso Block Plant 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 695 Huntingdon Ave 14.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Nurseries, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3105 Republic Services of South Carolina, Hilton Head 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCT - Sharonville 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCR - Dayton 25 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: 2017, 2016. 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.