Steel manufacturing · Ohio

AK Steel - Middletown Works

Name: AK Steel - Middletown Works Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Middletown, OH · ~2,288 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

AK Steel - Middletown Works runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

AK Steel - Middletown Works: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AK Steel - Middletown Works safety composite

AK Steel - Middletown Works scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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 - Middletown Works: 0.3 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.56× in 2020

AK Steel - Middletown Works's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.3 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Middletown, OH AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #4/53
PHOTO Nucor Steel Seattle,…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 38 inj
SIZE ~2,288 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nucor Steel Seattle, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows AK Steel - Middletown Works averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

AK Steel - Middletown Works TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where AK Steel - Middletown Works falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 53 Steel manufacturing employers in Ohio.

AK Steel - Middletown Works (2,288 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 - Middletown 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
2020	1.2	0.9	18	10
2019	0.3	0.3	7	1
2018	0.3	0.2	6	1
2016	0.3	0.3	7	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · OH · Middletown

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 125 employers in Middletown, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Nucor Steel Seattle, Inc.	SEATTLE, WA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Levy Environmental Services Company dba Butler Mill Service	BUTLER, IN	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Steel Dynamics, Inc. - FR Heartland	TERRE HAUTE, IN	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lone Star Tubular Operations	SOUTH LONE STAR, TX	0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	LBrands - Broad St. Campus	REYNOLDSBURG	2,296 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Whirlpool	MARION	2,277 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Honda R&D - Ohio	RAYMOND	2,275 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kenworth Chillicothe	CHILLICOTHE	2,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp. Middletown Works	Middletown	2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR	870 - EFC1 Monroe, OH	Middletown	1,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Atrium Medical Center	Middletown	1,345 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PAC Worldwide - Middletown OH	Middletown	483 FTE
NAT-TCR	Bernard Chaus inc	New York, NY	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pittsburg Tank & Tower Maintenance Co., Inc.	Henderson, KY	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Surface Chemistry Fort Worth	Fort Worth, TX	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Louisville ORR Protection	Louisville, KY	0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Tech Data Clearwater	Clearwater, FL	2,288 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Northrop Grumman Launch Vehicles	Chandler, AZ	2,289 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jefferson University Physicians	Philadelphia, PA	2,289 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Maury Regional Medical Center	Columbia, TN	2,287 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.