Waste materials merchant wholesalers · Arkansas

Tri-State iron & Metal Co.

Texarkana, AR · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tri-State iron & Metal Co. runs at 271% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste materials merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Tri-State iron & Metal Co.: 6.0 TCR = 271% of Waste materials merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tri-State iron & Metal Co. safety composite

Tri-State iron & Metal Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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 & Metal Co.: 4.4 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2019

Tri-State iron & Metal Co.'s TCR rose 1.2 from 4.4 in 2017 to 5.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.78× 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 6.0 · 271% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Residual Materials, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Residual Materials, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tri-State iron & Metal Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tri-State iron & Metal Co. averages 6.0 TCR (271% of the Waste materials merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Tri-State iron & Metal Co. TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=8 · 2019=5.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Tri-State iron & Metal Co. falls in its industry

1,126 Waste materials merchant whole establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #6 safest of 11 Waste materials merchant whole employers in Arkansas.

Tri-State iron & Metal Co. (72 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 & Metal Co.
Tri-State iron & Metal Co. (72 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Tri-State iron & Metal Co. has more employees than the Waste materials merchant wholesalers 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
2019 5.6 4.7 5 1 0
2018 8.0 6.6 5 1 0
2017 4.4 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · AR · Texarkana

1,126 Waste materials 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Residual Materials, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Scrap-Meridian LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Genan Inc 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wistron Greentech 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 7102205 CMS Newport 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core Insulation 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windmill Rice Company 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anthony Timberlands, Inc. Beirne 72 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 Lost Pines (HR) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lost Coast Brewery 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 2878 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0970 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ancra Group : Wakefield-Raleigh 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE SD,CANTON - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chesterfield Convalescent Center 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Persimmon Street 72 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: 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.