Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Texas

Spectrum Metal Recycling

Houston, TX · ~61 workers · 3 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

Spectrum Metal Recycling runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Spectrum Metal Recycling: 1.8 TCR = 82% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spectrum Metal Recycling safety composite

Spectrum Metal Recycling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.62 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

Spectrum Metal Recycling: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2024

Spectrum Metal Recycling's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 82% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #31/101
  • PHOTO SMM Group NEMT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SMM Group NEMT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spectrum Metal Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spectrum Metal Recycling averages 1.8 TCR (82% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Spectrum Metal Recycling TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Spectrum Metal Recycling falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #31 safest of 101 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Texas.

Spectrum Metal Recycling (61 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 Spectrum Metal Recycling
Spectrum Metal Recycling (61 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Spectrum Metal Recycling has more employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal 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 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · TX · Houston

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) 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 SMM Group NEMT 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations-TN 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reserve Alloys - Twinsburg 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Mufflin 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Muleshoe Dairy LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patriot Drilling LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXOMA SVC CTR 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEC-Cedar Park 61 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 Kureha PGA LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vollers Excavating and Construction, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chosen Wood Window Maintenance 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR E D Etnyre & Co 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Excel Sportswear 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeland Electric Inc 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE MPM Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sides Contracting Co., Inc 61 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, 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.