Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel · Ohio

Charter Steel- Fostoria

Rising Sun, OH · ~140 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charter Steel- Fostoria runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel workplace, earning a grade C.

Charter Steel- Fostoria: 3.3 TCR = 100% of Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charter Steel- Fostoria safety composite

Charter Steel- Fostoria scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−1.4

2023→2024

Charter Steel- Fostoria injury rate improved

Charter Steel- Fostoria's TCR fell 1.4 from 4.0 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.0 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331221 · Rising Sun, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 100% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #18/36
  • PHOTO Niagara LaSalle Corp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Niagara LaSalle Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charter Steel- Fostoria in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charter Steel- Fostoria averages 3.3 TCR (100% of the Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel BLS benchmark).

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

Charter Steel- Fostoria TCR series: 2023=4 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Charter Steel- Fostoria falls in its industry

206 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 36 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g employers in Ohio.

Charter Steel- Fostoria (140 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 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 Charter Steel- Fostoria
Charter Steel- Fostoria (140 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Charter Steel- Fostoria has more employees than the Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, pl median and a lower 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
2024 2.6 2.0 4 0 0
2023 4.0 2.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331221 · OH · Rising Sun

206 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio 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 Niagara LaSalle Corporation 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EVRAZ Portland 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Stainless - North Jackson 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Misa Metal Processing Portland, Tennessee 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dummen Orange 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Feazel Roofing, LLC 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cinfab 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE CANTON LOCATION 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charter Steel - Fostoria 111 FTE
NAT-TCR Platte Valley Medical Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR inertia dynamics 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Callahan Construction, Inc 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR San Joaquin County District Attorney 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Canterbury Woods 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cub Foods Nicollet - 5515 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marshall, MI 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Betsy Ross Nursing and Rehab Center 140 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.