Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products · Georgia

Bekaert Rome (BKRO)

Rome, GA · ~147 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bekaert Rome (BKRO) runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products workplace, earning a grade D.

Bekaert Rome (BKRO): 5.8 TCR = 176% of Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bekaert Rome (BKRO) safety composite

Bekaert Rome (BKRO) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Bekaert Rome (BKRO): 2.1 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Bekaert Rome (BKRO)'s TCR rose 2.8 from 2.1 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Rome, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Loos & Co Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~147 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Loos & Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bekaert Rome (BKRO) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bekaert Rome (BKRO) averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products BLS benchmark).

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

Bekaert Rome (BKRO) TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=11.4 · 2019=5 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=2.8 · 2023=7 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bekaert Rome (BKRO) falls in its industry

163 Drawing iron or steel wire fro establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Drawing iron or steel wire fro employers in Georgia.

Bekaert Rome (BKRO) (147 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bekaert Rome (BKRO)
Bekaert Rome (BKRO) (147 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Bekaert Rome (BKRO) has more employees than the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchase median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 4.9 3.9 5 0 0
2023 7.0 3.5 7 1 0
2021 2.8 2.8 4 0 0
2020 4.6 3.5 3 1 0
2019 5.0 3.5 10 0 0
2018 11.4 8.5 24 0 0
2017 8.7 8.1 16 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · GA · Rome

163 Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 147 employers in Rome, GA · 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 Loos & Co Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau- Beaumont Wire 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mar-Mac Industries, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR James Building A 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE VNG Virginia Beach Service Center 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Universal Electric Company 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Fraser Blackshear 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Fraser Fitzgerald 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR ROME 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center 3,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Floyd Medical Center 2,748 FTE
CITY-NEAR Floyd Healthcare Management Inc 2,741 FTE
NAT-TCR Stockdale's Selmer 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Blackhawk Moving & Storage 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston Marriott Burlington 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacksonville JAX 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Three Mile 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scot Forge - Clinton 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global 4 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fleetwood Group, Inc. 147 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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.