Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers · Maryland

SMM Group Vera Street

Baltimore, MD · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMM Group Vera Street runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

SMM Group Vera Street: 1.3 TCR = 57% of Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMM Group Vera Street safety composite

SMM Group Vera Street scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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 Vera Street: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

SMM Group Vera Street's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Baltimore, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 57% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #3/12
  • PHOTO Triad Metal Recyclers
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Triad Metal Recyclers (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMM Group Vera Street in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMM Group Vera Street averages 1.3 TCR (57% of the Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

SMM Group Vera Street TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where SMM Group Vera Street falls in its industry

1,126 Scrap materials (e.g., automot establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 12 Scrap materials (e.g., automot employers in Maryland.

SMM Group Vera Street (38 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Vera Street
SMM Group Vera Street (38 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

SMM Group Vera Street has fewer employees than the Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, indus 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · MD · Baltimore

1,126 Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 1,031 employers in Baltimore, MD · 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 Triad Metal Recyclers 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, Anaheim 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Line Polymers--Waterloo 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, Phenix City 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE MD 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE FSC - Hillen Street 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG MD RIO 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jeffrey Brown Contracting, LLC 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johns Hopkins Hospital 12,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland Medical Center 7,980 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 7,770 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGMS-T340 6,180 FTE
NAT-TCR Woonsocket 10295 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Mill 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone Concrete Placement Tesla 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Oakwood Health Services 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eric'sons VA 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insteel Wire Products KYW 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Construction Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Humble Brands, Inc. 38 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.