Wire (except insulated) merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Beta Steel

Sterling Heights, MI · ~51 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beta Steel runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Wire (except insulated) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Beta Steel: 5.8 TCR = 265% of Wire (except insulated) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beta Steel safety composite

Beta Steel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

Beta Steel: 5.3 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Beta Steel's TCR rose 5.0 from 5.3 in 2017 to 10.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Sterling Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 265% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #43/60
  • PHOTO JMS Russel Metals Co…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JMS Russel Metals Corp - Texarkana (0.0 TCR gap)

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Beta Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beta Steel averages 5.8 TCR (265% of the Wire (except insulated) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Beta Steel TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=0 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=8 · 2024=10.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Beta Steel falls in its industry

1,299 Wire (except insulated) mercha establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 60 Wire (except insulated) mercha employers in Michigan.

Beta Steel (51 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Beta Steel
Beta Steel (51 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Beta Steel has more employees than the Wire (except insulated) merchant wholesa 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
2024 10.3 0.0 6 0 0
2023 8.0 4.0 4 0 0
2022 7.7 3.9 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 7.9 6.3 5 0 0
2017 5.3 1.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · MI · Sterling Heights

1,299 Wire (except insulated) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 195 employers in Sterling Heights, MI · 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 JMS Russel Metals Corp - Texarkana 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CL 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brown Metals Company 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR High Performance Alloys, Inc. - Windfall 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack Pine Farms, LLC 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay County Waste Water Treatment Plant 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner Electric Service, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillsdale County Road Commission 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Heights Assembly Plant 5,783 FTE
CITY-NEAR STERLING PLNT 2,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Stamping Plant 2,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conti, LLC 1,892 FTE
NAT-TCR A-G Sod Farms, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PnP Oakland 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sam Rust Seafood, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR A to Z Drying, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clendenen Vineyard Management, LLC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE S09630 - MN Cambridge 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis Office 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04190 - WM of AL - Montgomery 51 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.