Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · New York

Upstate Shredding

Owego, NY · ~158 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Upstate Shredding runs at 919% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Upstate Shredding: 20.2 TCR = 919% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Upstate Shredding safety composite

Upstate Shredding scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Upstate Shredding: 4.0 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 36.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.14× in 2023

Upstate Shredding's TCR rose 5.1 from 4.0 in 2020 to 9.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 36.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Owego, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 20.2 · 919% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #38/39
  • PHOTO First Capital Fibers…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 107 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Capital Fibers, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Upstate Shredding in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Upstate Shredding averages 20.2 TCR (919% 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

Upstate Shredding TCR series: 2020=4 · 2021=36.9 · 2022=30.8 · 2023=9.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Upstate Shredding falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 39 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in New York.

Upstate Shredding (158 employees, TCR 20.2) 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Upstate Shredding
Upstate Shredding (158 employees, TCR 20.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Upstate Shredding has more 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
2023 9.1 2.9 44 0 0
2022 30.8 21.9 28 3 0
2021 36.9 13.8 32 0 0
2020 4.0 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · NY · Owego

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 21 employers in Owego, NY · 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 First Capital Fibers, Inc 20.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alandro Plastic Resources LLC 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CASS NV, LLC 20.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mallin Companies, Inc. 19.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE PIECE MANAGEMENT INC 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kubricky Construction Corp 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winland Foods Inc. 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skaneateles Plant 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US NY Owego State Route 17C (1233) 2,624 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Owego Campus (1233) 2,586 FTE
CITY-NEAR OACSD 1,009 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaskill 990 FTE
NAT-TCR Namaste Alzheimer Center 20.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 287181-Stl-Coyle Br 20.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Symphony Manor at Roland Park 20.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CDCR California State Prison Solano 20.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE TerraFirma Foundation Systems 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE OKC Processing Plant 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Muldrow Further Processing 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Timbers South Seas - MOV 158 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.