Steel manufacturing · Pennsylvania

AK Steel - Butler Works

Butler, PA · ~1,351 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AK Steel - Butler Works runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

AK Steel - Butler Works: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AK Steel - Butler Works safety composite

AK Steel - Butler Works scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Rising injury rate

AK Steel - Butler Works: 0.6 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2020

AK Steel - Butler Works's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.6 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Butler, PA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #3/53
  • PHOTO Nucor Steel Jewett TX
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~1,351 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nucor Steel Jewett TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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AK Steel - Butler Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AK Steel - Butler Works averages 0.6 TCR (18% 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 - Butler Works TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=1 · BLS 3.3

Where AK Steel - Butler Works falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 53 Steel manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

AK Steel - Butler Works (1,351 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 - Butler Works
AK Steel - Butler Works (1,351 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

AK Steel - Butler 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 1.0 0.6 5 7 0
2019 0.5 0.3 7 0 0
2018 0.4 0.3 4 2 0
2016 0.6 0.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · PA · Butler

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 97 employers in Butler, PA · 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 Nucor Steel Jewett TX 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - Jeffersonville 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Levy Environmental Services Company dba Butler Mill Service 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - FR Heartland 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE York Vehicle Operations 1,345 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMERICAN ONCOLOGIC HOSPITAL 1,358 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dietz and Watson 1,341 FTE
STATE-SIZE LAFAYETTE COLLEGE 1,338 FTE
CITY-NEAR Butler Memorial Hospital 1,665 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lifesteps, Inc. 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1885 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1885 454 FTE
NAT-TCR Pdc LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR innospec Oilfield Services 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ciox Health -Northwinds Office 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR James River Grounds Management 715 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waymo RLS 1,351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Sciences Solutions Group (LSG) Remote Employees 1,350 FTE
NAT-SIZE MDW - Inflight 1,350 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora Medical Center Summit 1,352 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.