Steel manufacturing · Ohio

AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG

West Chester, OH · ~425 workers · 3 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 - Headquarters, RIC, HG runs at 5% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG: 0.1 TCR = 5% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG safety composite

AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG 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 0.15 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2018→2020

AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG injury rate improved

AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG's TCR fell 0.5 from 0.5 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 0.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · West Chester, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 5% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/53
  • PHOTO ArcelorMittal Corpor…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~425 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ArcelorMittal Corporate - Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG averages 0.1 TCR (5% 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 - Headquarters, RIC, HG TCR series: 2018=0.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG 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 Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 53 Steel manufacturing employers in Ohio.

AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG (425 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 - Headquarters, RIC, HG
AK Steel - Headquarters, RIC, HG (425 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 - Headquarters, RIC, HG 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · OH · West Chester

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 205 employers in West Chester, OH · 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 ArcelorMittal Corporate - Chicago 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AK Steel - Ashland Works 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AK Steel - Zanesville Works 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silgan Containers Frontier Rd 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAY 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE Judson 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Gratings, INC 424 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Erie, Huron, Ottawa and Sandusky Counties 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lithko Contracting, LLC 2,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Chester Hospital LLC 1,413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cornerstone Services Group 1,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ohio DC2 939 FTE
NAT-TCR Sparks-Grand Rapids 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando Rapid Response Team 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Melbourne Rapid Response Team 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Myers Rapid Response Team 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE HoneywellAZ10 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 32 - 35 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mahomet-Seymour CUSD #3 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pro Wall Lath & Plaster 425 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. 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.