Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Texas

Wright's Scrap Metals

Beaumont, TX · ~34 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wright's Scrap Metals runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Wright's Scrap Metals: 4.7 TCR = 215% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wright's Scrap Metals safety composite

Wright's Scrap Metals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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)
D 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Wright's Scrap Metals: 5.9 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Wright's Scrap Metals's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.9 in 2020 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 215% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #61/101
  • PHOTO PnP Kansas City Winn…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PnP Kansas City Winner Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wright's Scrap Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wright's Scrap Metals averages 4.7 TCR (215% 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

Wright's Scrap Metals TCR series: 2020=5.9 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Wright's Scrap Metals falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #61 safest of 101 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Texas.

Wright's Scrap Metals (34 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Wright's Scrap Metals
Wright's Scrap Metals (34 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Wright's Scrap Metals 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 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2023 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2020 5.9 5.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · TX · Beaumont

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 329 employers in Beaumont, 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 PnP Kansas City Winner Road 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Recycling, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joe W. Morgan, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSI Tacoma 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE SOUTHWEST FEED YARD 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bartlett Cattle Company, L.P. - Tulia 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineywoods 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE TXP 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beaumont SCANfining Project (BMSF) 2,106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas 2,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4038-1618 1,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR ExxonMobil Beaumont Refinery 1,178 FTE
NAT-TCR L.W. Schneider, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Esstech, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR LB Manufacturing 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elkay Interior Systems 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Capitol Coastal Jacksonville 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salina Steel Supply, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE T & V Plaster, Incorporated 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cowin Equipment Company of Mobile 34 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, 2023, 2022, 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.