Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Virginia

SMM Group Petersburg, VA

Petersburg, VA · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMM Group Petersburg, VA runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

SMM Group Petersburg, VA: 1.5 TCR = 68% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMM Group Petersburg, VA safety composite

SMM Group Petersburg, VA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

SMM Group Petersburg, VA: 0.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

SMM Group Petersburg, VA's TCR rose 4.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Petersburg, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 68% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO SSE Lithonia
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SSE Lithonia (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMM Group Petersburg, VA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMM Group Petersburg, VA averages 1.5 TCR (68% 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

SMM Group Petersburg, VA TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where SMM Group Petersburg, VA falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Virginia.

SMM Group Petersburg, VA (19 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 SMM Group Petersburg, VA
SMM Group Petersburg, VA (19 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

SMM Group Petersburg, VA has fewer 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 4.5 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 · VA · Petersburg

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 79 employers in Petersburg, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR SSE Lithonia 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McNichols Scrap Iron Metal Co. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMM Group North Haven, CT 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Metals Recycling Inc. 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silver Creek & Seamans Orchard, Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Temperanceville Growout 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gordonsville Power Station 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manassas Office 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : RIC1 1,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southside Regional Medical Center 1,268 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RIC1 828 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Plus Services 659 FTE
NAT-TCR Construction 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Corteva 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR C&S Machine Products, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR GKN Automotive- Alamance 1.5 TCR

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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.