Steel manufacturing · Indiana

AK Steel - Rockport Works

Rockport, IN · ~456 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AK Steel - Rockport Works runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

AK Steel - Rockport Works: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AK Steel - Rockport Works safety composite

AK Steel - Rockport Works scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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 - Rockport Works: 0.6 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2020

AK Steel - Rockport Works's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.6 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Rockport, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #7/42
  • PHOTO AK Steel - Coshocton…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~456 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AK Steel - Coshocton Works (0.0 TCR gap)

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AK Steel - Rockport Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AK Steel - Rockport Works averages 0.9 TCR (27% 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 - Rockport Works TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2018=1 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where AK Steel - Rockport Works falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 42 Steel manufacturing employers in Indiana.

AK Steel - Rockport Works (456 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 - Rockport Works
AK Steel - Rockport Works (456 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

AK Steel - Rockport 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 1.6 1.0 4 4 0
2019 0.4 0.2 2 0 0
2018 1.0 0.6 5 0 0
2016 0.6 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IN · Rockport

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 15 employers in Rockport, IN · 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 AK Steel - Coshocton Works 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Steel Texas 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp. Middletown Works 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Steel Arizona 2 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 171 - MD Indianapolis 456 FTE
STATE-SIZE Telamon Corporation - Carmel 455 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rolls Royce: Victory/TC/OSB 457 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8807850-Ingram Micro Mobility 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockport Plant 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockport 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miller's Merry Manor 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR MPW Industrial Services, Inc. - Rockport 49 FTE
NAT-TCR AK Steel - Coshocton Works 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Merit Health River Oaks 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mecklenburg Paint Co Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE FirstService Residential Minnesota, Corporate Office 456 FTE
NAT-SIZE USG Corporation 456 FTE
NAT-SIZE VSolvit LLC 456 FTE
NAT-SIZE PALMETTO 456 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.