Steel merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Benjamin Steel Co-Lima

Lima, OH · ~44 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Benjamin Steel Co-Lima runs at 536% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Benjamin Steel Co-Lima: 11.8 TCR = 536% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benjamin Steel Co-Lima safety composite

Benjamin Steel Co-Lima scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−5.3

2016→2023

Benjamin Steel Co-Lima injury rate improved

Benjamin Steel Co-Lima's TCR fell 5.3 from 9.8 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.8 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=16.4 · 2021=19.3 · 2022=7.0 · 2023=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Lima, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.8 · 536% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #124/130
  • PHOTO Houston Special Meta…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Houston Special Metals, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Benjamin Steel Co-Lima in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Benjamin Steel Co-Lima averages 11.8 TCR (536% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Benjamin Steel Co-Lima TCR series: 2016=9.8 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=16.4 · 2021=19.3 · 2022=7 · 2023=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Benjamin Steel Co-Lima falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #124 safest of 130 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Ohio.

Benjamin Steel Co-Lima (44 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Benjamin Steel Co-Lima
Benjamin Steel Co-Lima (44 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Benjamin Steel Co-Lima has fewer employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2023 4.5 2.2 2 0 0
2022 7.0 2.3 3 0 0
2021 19.3 19.3 8 0 0
2020 16.4 11.7 5 2 0
2019 10.5 8.4 5 0 0
2018 15.2 15.2 7 0 0
2016 9.8 7.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · OH · Lima

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 243 employers in Lima, 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 Houston Special Metals, Inc. 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jemison Metals - Gadsden 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Metal Supply Newark 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Performance Metals - CHI 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.T.S.S. Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Day Farms - Croton 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Licking Rural Electricfication 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus SE Service Center 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center 2,540 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Rita's Medical Center 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Ritas Medical Center 2,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR LIMA ENGINE 1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR Nwbc LLC 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Aledo Rehabilitation and Health Care 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlyle Van Lines Inc 11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ReArch Company 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSG Sky Chefs - 1692 - Retail 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE BT Pensacola 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAGL Manufacturing 44 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, 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.