Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Texas

Venture Metals

Dallas, TX · ~89 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Venture Metals runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Venture Metals: 5.1 TCR = 231% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Venture Metals safety composite

Venture Metals scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.1

2017→2024

Venture Metals injury rate improved

Venture Metals's TCR fell 11.1 from 13.0 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=13.0 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 231% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #63/101
  • PHOTO SLM Recycling Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SLM Recycling Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Venture Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Venture Metals averages 5.1 TCR (231% 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 TCR series: 2017=13 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Venture Metals falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #63 safest of 101 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Texas.

Venture Metals (89 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Venture Metals
Venture Metals (89 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Venture Metals 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
2024 1.9 1.3 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 8.7 3.7 7 0 0
2017 13.0 10.4 9 1 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 SLM Recycling Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Aluminum Alloys, LLC. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omaha Track Chicago 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clayton County Recycling 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amycel, LLC & Spawn Mate-Madisonville 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ovintiv USA Inc. - Eagle Ford Office 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE ES/Roustabout Division - 04 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE ODESSA TRANSMISSION 89 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 Tech Etch Plymouth 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Santa Ana 18601 Airport Way 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Stratford at Beyer Park 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Visual Pak Waukegan 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pepsi-Cola of Rockford 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Greater Boston Food Bank 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freeport Transport Industries, Inc. 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE RS Mowery Sons 89 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, 2020, 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.