Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills · Ohio

Charter Steel- Cleveland

Cuyahoga Heights, OH · ~511 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charter Steel- Cleveland runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Charter Steel- Cleveland: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charter Steel- Cleveland safety composite

Charter Steel- Cleveland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Charter Steel- Cleveland: 3.6 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Charter Steel- Cleveland's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.6 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Cuyahoga Heights, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #39/53
  • PHOTO Globe Metallurgical,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~511 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Globe Metallurgical, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charter Steel- Cleveland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charter Steel- Cleveland averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Charter Steel- Cleveland TCR series: 2023=3.6 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Charter Steel- Cleveland falls in its industry

416 Bars, steel, made in iron and establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 53 Bars, steel, made in iron and employers in Ohio.

Charter Steel- Cleveland (511 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Charter Steel- Cleveland
Charter Steel- Cleveland (511 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Charter Steel- Cleveland has more employees than the Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mill median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 4.4 3.5 26 0 0
2023 3.6 2.8 20 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · OH · Cuyahoga Heights

416 Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 14 employers in Cuyahoga Heights, OH · 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 Globe Metallurgical, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Steel California 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau - Monroe Mill 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unitrac R.R. Materials 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Union Center DC 511 FTE
STATE-SIZE TP Mechanical 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillman Group Service 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE Millercoors Trenton Brewery 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charter Steel - Cleveland 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Joshen Paper & Packaging 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nook Industries 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Worthington Steel Cleveland 144 FTE
NAT-TCR Families in Recovery Program 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas 10172 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MALDEN-MA19 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Lansing Bickford 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Woodmark Corporation 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nikola Corporation 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Medical Systems 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flower Mound TX 511 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.