Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Louisiana

Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette

Scott, LA · ~20 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette: 1.8 TCR = 80% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette safety composite

Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette: 0.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.47× in 2024

Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette's TCR rose 4.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Scott, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 80% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO Schupan Industrial R…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schupan Industrial Recycling Kalamazoo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette averages 1.8 TCR (80% 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 Recycling LLC Lafayette TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 18 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Louisiana.

Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette (20 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Recycling LLC Lafayette
Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette (20 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Southern Recycling LLC Lafayette 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 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2023 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · LA · Scott

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 33 employers in Scott, LA · 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 Schupan Industrial Recycling Kalamazoo 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OmniSource, LLC.- Toledo Ferrous 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAW Salvage Brighton 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Environmental Wood Solutions 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plaq Frac Plant 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gulf Island Services - PWE 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Entergy Lockport 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Entergy Terrebonne 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Inspection Services, LLC 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gordon Technologies, LLC 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atchafalaya Measurement, Inc. 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Super 1 Foods #643 130 FTE
NAT-TCR Allied 1 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nutek Disposables, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR R C Foster Corporation 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chesterfield (Mt Clemens) MFG (EF, AUTO) 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Family Health Center ZSFGH 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE A. Oseguera Company 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Moran Construction 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE River City Builders & Millworks, Inc. 20 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.