Erecting structural steel · Montana

Apex Steel Montana, Inc.

Billings, MT · ~57 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex Steel Montana, Inc. runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade D.

Apex Steel Montana, Inc.: 4.7 TCR = 169% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Steel Montana, Inc. safety composite

Apex Steel Montana, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Apex Steel Montana, Inc.: 0.0 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2023

Apex Steel Montana, Inc.'s TCR rose 14.2 from 0.0 in 2021 to 14.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Billings, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 169% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Sofco =Erectors,inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sofco =Erectors,inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex Steel Montana, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apex Steel Montana, Inc. averages 4.7 TCR (169% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Apex Steel Montana, Inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=14.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Apex Steel Montana, Inc. falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Erecting structural steel employers in Montana.

Apex Steel Montana, Inc. (57 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Apex Steel Montana, Inc.
Apex Steel Montana, Inc. (57 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Apex Steel Montana, Inc. has fewer employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 14.2 5.3 8 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · MT · Billings

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 327 employers in Billings, MT · 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 Sofco =Erectors,inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Continental Steel Fabrication 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pascal Steel Corporation 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Reinforcing, Inc. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE US Tower Services, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spika Design and Manufaturing 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2284-807 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABS-0030-0030-00015 FAC-00015-WOLF POINT-MT 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billings Clinic Hospital 2,366 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Vincent Healthcare 1,860 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billings Clinic Downtown Campus 1,223 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Lutheran Ministries 651 FTE
NAT-TCR WinCup West Chicago 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Eminent Medical Center 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kenner 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Unisource Mfg INC 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE S.C. Anderson, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE GPR Company, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aberdeen Elementary School 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crestwood Chula Vista 57 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.