Blast furnace slag processing · Indiana

Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs

Burns Harbor, IN · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs runs at 511% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blast furnace slag processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs: 16.9 TCR = 511% of Blast furnace slag processing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs safety composite

Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.2

2023→2024

Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs injury rate improved

Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs's TCR fell 4.2 from 19.0 in 2023 to 14.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=19.0 · 2024=14.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327992 · Burns Harbor, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.9 · 511% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Custom Processing Se…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Custom Processing Services, LLC (3.0 TCR gap)

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Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs averages 16.9 TCR (511% of the Blast furnace slag processing BLS benchmark).

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

Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs TCR series: 2023=19 · 2024=14.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs falls in its industry

97 Blast furnace slag processing establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Blast furnace slag processing employers in Indiana.

Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs (20 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs
Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs (20 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Burns Harbor Cleveland Cliffs has fewer employees than the Blast furnace slag processing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2024 14.7 3.7 4 0 0
2023 19.0 19.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327992 · IN · Burns Harbor

97 Blast furnace slag processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 18 employers in Burns Harbor, IN · 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 Custom Processing Services, LLC 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Processing Services-East Greenville 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silbrico Corporation - Hodgkins 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Supreme Perlite 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoosierland Pork 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Family Farm, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corydon Growout 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE HVA P&C Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Cliffs - Burns Harbor 4,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor, LLC 3,873 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs - Corporate Burns Harbor - Corporate 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR ArcelorMittal Corporate - Burns Harbor 246 FTE
NAT-TCR Elements of CNY 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ignite Medical Resort Kansas City LLC 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Serendipity Center, Inc 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dialysis Clinic Inc Spartanburg 16.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE CO2 Chipley Office 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Dismantling LLC. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eagle Eye Farms Blackfoot 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wccs-Mchs-640 Old Cain Ridge Road 20 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.