Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Texas

Venture Metals Dallas

Dallas, TX · ~172 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Venture Metals Dallas runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Venture Metals Dallas: 3.7 TCR = 167% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Venture Metals Dallas safety composite

Venture Metals Dallas scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Venture Metals Dallas: 0.7 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2023

Venture Metals Dallas's TCR rose 7.5 from 0.7 in 2021 to 8.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Dallas, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 167% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #51/101
  • PHOTO Cohen Lexington
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cohen Lexington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Venture Metals Dallas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Venture Metals Dallas averages 3.7 TCR (167% 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

Venture Metals Dallas TCR series: 2021=0.7 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=8.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Venture Metals Dallas falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #51 safest of 101 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Texas.

Venture Metals Dallas (172 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 050100150200 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Venture Metals Dallas
Venture Metals Dallas (172 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Venture Metals Dallas has more 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
2023 8.3 4.1 12 0 0
2022 2.1 0.7 3 0 0
2021 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · TX · Dallas

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, 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 Cohen Lexington 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aim Recycling Vicksburg 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shapiro Metals- Dickson 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresno - Sunland 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Don Oppliger Companies 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Champion Energy Services 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7174-XOM Beaumont 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boyer, Inc. 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR AECOM DCS (US Operations) 15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS 6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDQ - Headquarters 5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR Cheyenne Terminal-DOT 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #509 ST. AUGUSTINE, FL 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Core Concepts, Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Country Woodworkers 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dayton Mixing Center 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville Hauling Operations and Transfer Station 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC- 606 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lahey Health at Home - Woburn 172 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. 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.