Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Texas

Southern Core Recycling

Houston, TX · ~46 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Core Recycling runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern Core Recycling: 2.3 TCR = 102% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Core Recycling safety composite

Southern Core Recycling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−1.0

2021→2024

Southern Core Recycling injury rate improved

Southern Core Recycling's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.9 in 2021 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.9 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 102% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #36/101
  • PHOTO SA Recycling Las Veg…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SA Recycling Las Vegas, Range Rd. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Core Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Core Recycling averages 2.3 TCR (102% 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

Southern Core Recycling TCR series: 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern Core Recycling falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 101 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Texas.

Southern Core Recycling (46 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Southern Core Recycling
Southern Core Recycling (46 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Southern Core Recycling 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · TX · Houston

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 SA Recycling Las Vegas, Range Rd. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regency Technologies - Solon 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELG Metals - Mobile 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, Marietta 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coolwater 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE HALE CENTER FEED YARD 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wrangler Feedyard 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE SPG TEXAS COMPLEX -EST 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Woldenberg Village 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vision Ace Hardware, Dunedin 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ardent Mills Tampa 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Shenandoah Univ Catering 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zintech, ClearCut DieWorks 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HJX1 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Xcavators, Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Hill Hose Fire Department 46 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. 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.