Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · West Virginia

Charleston Steel

Dunbar, WV · ~32 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charleston Steel runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Charleston Steel: 6.5 TCR = 197% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charleston Steel safety composite

Charleston Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Charleston Steel: 2.7 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Charleston Steel's TCR rose 11.2 from 2.7 in 2016 to 13.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Dunbar, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 197% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Tucson AZ - Larson C…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tucson AZ - Larson Camo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charleston Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charleston Steel averages 6.5 TCR (197% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Charleston Steel TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=11.9 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Charleston Steel falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in West Virginia.

Charleston Steel (32 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 Charleston Steel
Charleston Steel (32 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Charleston Steel has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 13.8 6.9 4 0 0
2023 7.6 3.8 2 0 0
2022 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2021 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 11.9 8.9 4 0 0
2017 5.3 2.6 2 0 0
2016 2.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · WV · Dunbar

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 26 employers in Dunbar, WV · 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 Tucson AZ - Larson Camo 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Excelsior Fresno 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MBT Systems, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MICHELMANN STEEL CONSTRUCTION CO. 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moundsville Fractionator 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vecellio & Grogan_ Job # 1003001 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIMCO INC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims Moorefield Live Operations 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Virginia Paving 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR 029-00768 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR B28 DUNBAR CENTER 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dunbar Center 94 FTE
NAT-TCR The Fresh market 146 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CONST 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Daigle Oil Company - Corporate Office 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plumb Tech Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sugar Creek Foods International Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logistics Center 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE SpringHill Suites Pittsburgh Latrobe 32 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, 2021, 2020, 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.