Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Zero Waste Recycling

Charlotte, NC · ~267 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zero Waste Recycling runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Zero Waste Recycling: 1.4 TCR = 66% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zero Waste Recycling safety composite

Zero Waste Recycling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Zero Waste Recycling: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Zero Waste Recycling's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 66% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #13/37
  • PHOTO Macon - Lower Poplar
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~267 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Macon - Lower Poplar (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zero Waste Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zero Waste Recycling averages 1.4 TCR (66% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Zero Waste Recycling TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Zero Waste Recycling falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 37 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in North Carolina.

Zero Waste Recycling (267 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Zero Waste Recycling
Zero Waste Recycling (267 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Zero Waste Recycling has more employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal 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
2024 2.1 1.2 5 0 0
2023 2.3 1.1 6 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · NC · Charlotte

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 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 Macon - Lower Poplar 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trademark Metals Recycling LLC Landstreet 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif (RG Hardeeville) 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Recycling Liberty 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alamance Foods - Worth Street Plant 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harland Clarke High Point 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE KBI Biopharma - Patriot Park 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant # 9 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilkie Masonry Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR OraSure Technologies Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Westfall Technik 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Virtus Nutrition, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookestone Village 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Noah's Ark Waterpark 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pompano 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Baddour Center, Inc. 267 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.