Steel manufacturing · Kentucky

AK Steel - Ashland Works

Ashland, KY · ~160 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AK Steel - Ashland Works runs at 3% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

AK Steel - Ashland Works: 0.1 TCR = 3% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AK Steel - Ashland Works safety composite

AK Steel - Ashland Works scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

AK Steel - Ashland Works held a steady TCR band

AK Steel - Ashland Works's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 0.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Ashland, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 3% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/14
  • PHOTO Silgan Containers Fr…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Silgan Containers Frontier Rd (0.0 TCR gap)

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AK Steel - Ashland Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AK Steel - Ashland Works averages 0.1 TCR (3% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AK Steel - Ashland Works TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where AK Steel - Ashland Works falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 14 Steel manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

AK Steel - Ashland Works (160 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate AK Steel - Ashland Works
AK Steel - Ashland Works (160 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

AK Steel - Ashland Works has more employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · KY · Ashland

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 79 employers in Ashland, KY · 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 Silgan Containers Frontier Rd 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ArcelorMittal Corporate - East Chicago 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grant Street 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Warren Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisville Site 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGC Automotive 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Equipment Depot Kentucky. Inc - Corporate 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kings Daughters Medical Center 4,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital 1,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1426 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1426 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Smg LLC Hq 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hatzel & Buehler, Inc. DE 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Espn - Lapc 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Avery Dennison - Materials Group Building 22 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Tyler 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edelbrock Foundry, LLC 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Forest 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE APS Streetsboro Plant 160 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.