Industry profile · NAICS 423930

Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers

Workplace injury rates across 1,235 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

1,235
Employers
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
BLS benchmark
12,110
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers average 5.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.3 times the BLS national benchmark of 2.2.

5.0
avg TCR · reporting employers
2.2
BLS national benchmark
1,235
employers reporting
12,110
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers Safety Data Reveals

The Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers sector (NAICS 423930) encompasses 1,235 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 12,110 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 2.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 5.0 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Wilmington Iron & Metal Co., Inc. Wilmington, OH F 4.8
Angelus Western Paper Fibers Los Angeles, CA F 4.8
Alter Metal Recycling - Peoria Behr - Clarke St Peoria, IL F 4.8
Integrated Recycling Technologies, Inc. Saint Cloud, MN F 4.8
Mat Services Ontario, CA F 4.8
Recycling Works Elkhart, IN F 4.8
Grade A Allstate Louisville, KY F 4.8
Eugene Plant, Redemption Center, Route Operations Eugene, OR F 4.8
Metalico Bradford Bradford, PA F 4.8
Napuck Salvage of Waupaca, LLC Chicago, IL F 4.8
Metro Alloy's Inc East Point, GA F 4.8
Branch 49 Grand Junction, CO F 4.8
Noble Oil Services, Inc. (Plant) Sanford, NC F 4.8
SMC Selmer Selmer, TN F 4.8
Trinity Metals - English Indianapolis, IN F 4.7
Loop Paper Recycling LLC. Chicago, IL F 4.7
Wright's Scrap Metals Beaumont, TX F 4.7
PnP Kansas City Winner Road Kansas City, MO F 4.7
Southern Recycling, LLC Bowling Green, KY F 4.7
Joe W. Morgan, Inc. Evansville, IN F 4.7
SSI Tacoma Tacoma, WA F 4.7
SA Recycling, Socorro El Paso, TX F 4.7
Columbus Scrap Material Columbus, MS F 4.7
Norman W Paschall Co., Inc Peachtree City, GA F 4.7
PnP Fort Worth Fort Worth, TX F 4.7
Bedford Enterprises, Inc. Santa Maria, CA F 4.7
Midwest Industrial Metals Northlake, IL F 4.7
Longhorn Recycling, LP San Antonio, TX F 4.6
Weiner Iron Metals Pottsville, PA F 4.6
OmniSource - Greenville Greenville, MS F 4.6
RMRS - Transportation Salt Lake City, UT F 4.6
Padnos Ixl Holland, MI F 4.6
Mazza Iron & Steel LLC Fairless Hills, PA F 4.6
400 W Marquette Cedarburg, WI F 4.6
Manitoba Corporation Lancaster, NY F 4.6
Universal Service Recycling Inc Stockton, CA F 4.6
Regency Technologies - Brooksville Brooksville, FL F 4.6
E & H Car Crushing Co., Inc. Orlando, FL F 4.5
Reliance Upholstery Supply Compnay Inc. Vernon, CA F 4.5
SA Recycling, St. Louis-McKinley St. Louis, MO F 4.5
ERI Badin, NC Badin, NC F 4.5
Louisiana Plastic Converting Corp West Monroe, LA F 4.5
Metro Retail Recycling Services, a division of Cascades Holding Inc. Rochester, NY F 4.5
Paul Mattuchio Inc. Everett, MA F 4.5
Alter Metal Recycling - Behr Iron - Mason City Mason City, IA F 4.5
Edward Arnold Scrap Processor, Inc Corfu, NY F 4.5
Berry Enterprises, Inc. Chilhowie, VA F 4.5
BASF Corporation - Converse Spartanburg, SC F 4.5
Alter Metal Recycling - Council Bluffs Council Bluffs, IA F 4.5
SMC Corinth Corinth, MS F 4.5
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This sector averages 5.0 against a BLS benchmark of 2.2 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.