Erecting structural steel · Oregon

By Design Steel Services LLC

Colton, OR · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

By Design Steel Services LLC runs at 560% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade F.

By Design Steel Services LLC: 15.7 TCR = 560% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

By Design Steel Services LLC safety composite

By Design Steel Services LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

By Design Steel Services LLC: 10.1 → 21.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 21.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

By Design Steel Services LLC's TCR rose 11.1 from 10.1 in 2021 to 21.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Colton, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 560% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Peninsula Prestress
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Peninsula Prestress (0.1 TCR gap)

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By Design Steel Services LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows By Design Steel Services LLC averages 15.7 TCR (560% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

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

By Design Steel Services LLC TCR series: 2021=10.1 · 2022=21.2 · BLS 2.8

Where By Design Steel Services LLC falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Erecting structural steel employers in Oregon.

By Design Steel Services LLC (24 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 By Design Steel Services LLC
By Design Steel Services LLC (24 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

By Design Steel Services LLC has fewer employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2022 21.2 0.0 5 0 0
2021 10.1 10.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · OR · Colton

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 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 Peninsula Prestress 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR REFA Erection, Inc. 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Metal Works Inc. 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Cork Welding Inc 16.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Froerer Farms inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilson Cattle Company 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bonanza View Dairy 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Century Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-TCR 388008-Struthers Po 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02856 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02262 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Westminster 15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mn Gastro Pediatric Clinic 3001 Broadway 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSJ Clinic 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Titusville Clinic 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hajoca Corporation - 786 24 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: 2022, 2021. 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.