Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Arkansas

Tri-State Iron and Metal Company

Texarkana, AR · ~6 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tri-State Iron and Metal Company runs at 305% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Tri-State Iron and Metal Company: 6.7 TCR = 305% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tri-State Iron and Metal Company safety composite

Tri-State Iron and Metal Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Tri-State Iron and Metal Company: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 20.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2024

Tri-State Iron and Metal Company's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 20.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Texarkana, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 305% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Yaffe Iron & Metal C…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~6 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yaffe Iron & Metal Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tri-State Iron and Metal Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tri-State Iron and Metal Company averages 6.7 TCR (305% 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

Tri-State Iron and Metal Company TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=20 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Tri-State Iron and Metal Company falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Arkansas.

Tri-State Iron and Metal Company (6 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Tri-State Iron and Metal Company
Tri-State Iron and Metal Company (6 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Tri-State Iron and Metal Company has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a higher 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 1.6 3 0 0
2023 4.4 0.0 6 0 0
2021 20.0 6.7 6 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · AR · Texarkana

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 44 employers in Texarkana, AR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Yaffe Iron & Metal Co., Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FPT Lonyo, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mero Metals Northwest Inc 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSC Metals, INC - Canton 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Collom and Carney Clinic- Prescott 6 FTE
STATE-SIZE Collom & Carney Clinic-Prescott 5 FTE
STATE-SIZE MFH- Little Rock Counseling Clinic 7 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Manor Sheridan 7 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant 1,744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Refrigerated Transport 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR 468 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 468 327 FTE
NAT-TCR Pacific Botanicals 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Unscripted Durham 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin Holding LLC dba Indiana Cardinal 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6481 6.7 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, 2021, 2020. 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.