Pig iron merchant wholesalers · California

Benner Metals

Fullerton, CA · ~36 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Benner Metals runs at 500% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pig iron merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Benner Metals: 11.0 TCR = 500% of Pig iron merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benner Metals safety composite

Benner Metals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Benner Metals: 1.4 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 21.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2020

Benner Metals's TCR rose 9.3 from 1.4 in 2018 to 10.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 21.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Fullerton, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 500% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #86/91
  • PHOTO O'Neal Steel LLC_Jac…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: O'Neal Steel LLC_Jacksonville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Benner Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Benner Metals averages 11.0 TCR (500% of the Pig iron merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Benner Metals TCR series: 2018=1.4 · 2019=21 · 2020=10.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Benner Metals falls in its industry

1,299 Pig iron merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #86 safest of 91 Pig iron merchant wholesalers employers in California.

Benner Metals (36 employees, TCR 11.0) 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 Benner Metals
Benner Metals (36 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Benner Metals has fewer employees than the Pig iron 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
2020 10.7 10.7 4 0 0
2019 21.0 21.0 6 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · CA · Fullerton

1,299 Pig iron merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 167 employers in Fullerton, CA · 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 O'Neal Steel LLC_Jacksonville 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spokane Branch 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mississippi Steel Processing 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDM Steel Service Center, Inc. - Woodland 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA692 ST JUDE MEDICAL CENTER HR 2,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR SASCO 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Fullerton 692 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fullerton / Orange 636 FTE
NAT-TCR 30th and Main Store 11 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 308340-S Sioux City Po 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbor - Troy Comm Cons Elementary Sd 30-C 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 184 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CDI - Pin Oak 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peak Custom Fabrication, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leawood Ks Store 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Western Plus Dubuque Hotel & Conference Center 36 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. 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.