Steel manufacturing · Michigan

AK Steel - Dearborn Works

Dearborn, MI · ~1,474 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AK Steel - Dearborn Works runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

AK Steel - Dearborn Works: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AK Steel - Dearborn Works safety composite

AK Steel - Dearborn Works scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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 - Dearborn Works: 0.6 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2020

AK Steel - Dearborn Works's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.6 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Dearborn, MI AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #3/25
  • PHOTO Nucor Steel
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~1,474 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nucor Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

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AK Steel - Dearborn Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AK Steel - Dearborn Works averages 0.8 TCR (25% 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 - Dearborn Works TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where AK Steel - Dearborn Works falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 25 Steel manufacturing employers in Michigan.

AK Steel - Dearborn Works (1,474 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 - Dearborn Works
AK Steel - Dearborn Works (1,474 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

AK Steel - Dearborn 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 1.1 0.8 7 4 0
2019 0.5 0.3 7 0 0
2018 1.1 0.6 14 3 0
2016 0.6 0.5 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · MI · Dearborn

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 130 employers in Dearborn, MI · 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 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wheeling Machine 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Karp Associates, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel Nebraska 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Faurecia Interior Systems Saline LLC 1,474 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRAND RAPIDS DC (DISTRIBUTION CENTERS) 1,481 FTE
STATE-SIZE Memorial Heatlhcare 1,465 FTE
STATE-SIZE MPI Research 1,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDC - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CENTER TRUCK 20,749 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dearborn Truck Plant 5,037 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-1 4,185 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDC - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CENTER DESIGN 3,940 FTE
NAT-TCR LQ0051 Dallas Corporate Office 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Adient US LLC. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowerman Trucking Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oregon 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Board of Education 1,474 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomington/Normandale 1,474 FTE
NAT-SIZE Borton Fruit 1,473 FTE
NAT-SIZE Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital 1,473 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.