Metal Service Center · Illinois

Central Steel & Wire

Chicago, IL · ~311 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Steel & Wire runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal Service Center workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Steel & Wire: 4.9 TCR = 224% of Metal Service Center BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Steel & Wire safety composite

Central Steel & Wire scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Central Steel & Wire: 3.6 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

Central Steel & Wire's TCR rose 2.2 from 3.6 in 2021 to 5.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.9 · 224% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #69/107
  • PHOTO O'Neal Steel Incorpo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~311 FTE

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

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Central Steel & Wire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Steel & Wire averages 4.9 TCR (224% of the Metal Service Center BLS benchmark).

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

Central Steel & Wire TCR series: 2021=3.6 · 2022=5.4 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Central Steel & Wire falls in its industry

1,299 Metal Service Center establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 107 Metal Service Center employers in Illinois.

Central Steel & Wire (311 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Steel & Wire
Central Steel & Wire (311 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Central Steel & Wire has more employees than the Metal Service Center 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 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2022 5.4 5.4 20 3 0
2021 3.6 2.9 14 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Chicago

1,299 Metal Service Center employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Incorporated_Shelbyville 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SL-2 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&B Surplus Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Location #4 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GFX Grayslake 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cleveland-Cliffs Riverdale 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danville Machining 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earle M. Jorgensen Company 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR AWG, Pearl River 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkview Care Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Schuler Books 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeland Plant 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Little Rock Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE 105116 - IH 820 SE Connector 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robbinsville - 100 West Manor Way 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE Element Biosciences 311 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, 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.