Steel merchant wholesalers · Missouri

Cardinal Steel

Saint Louis, MO · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Steel runs at 293% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cardinal Steel: 6.4 TCR = 293% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Steel safety composite

Cardinal Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−3.4

2016→2019

Cardinal Steel injury rate improved

Cardinal Steel's TCR fell 3.4 from 7.4 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.4 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Saint Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 293% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #25/32
  • PHOTO CH
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Steel averages 6.4 TCR (293% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal Steel TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal Steel falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 32 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Missouri.

Cardinal Steel (26 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Cardinal Steel
Cardinal Steel (26 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Cardinal Steel 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
2019 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2018 7.3 3.6 0 2 0
2017 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2016 7.4 7.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · MO · Saint Louis

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 448 employers in Saint Louis, MO · 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 CH 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR O'Neal Steel Incorporated_Pittsburgh 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Stainless Products, Inc. Quakertown 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Knob Noster Pullets 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE MO96-SEL-HIGHWAY 96- HENS' 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MO Hwy 96 006-0138-96, 9G 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE KCP&L - Belton Service Cetner 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR MO002 12,691 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barnes-Jewish Hospital 9,005 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS 5,653 FTE
CITY-NEAR Checkerboard Square 3,464 FTE
NAT-TCR Faf Den 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gainesville Fibers Plant 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Motor Truck Equipment Company/DBA Kenworth of PA 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn Islip 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Century Fence Company - Knapp 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Group America 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inn at Nye Beach 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Mart 511 26 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.