Pickling metals and metal products for the trade · Ohio

Charter Steel - Fostoria

Rising Sun, OH · ~111 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charter Steel - Fostoria runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pickling metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Charter Steel - Fostoria: 5.0 TCR = 151% of Pickling metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charter Steel - Fostoria safety composite

Charter Steel - Fostoria scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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)
D 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−3.5

2020→2021

Charter Steel - Fostoria injury rate improved

Charter Steel - Fostoria's TCR fell 3.5 from 6.7 in 2020 to 3.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.7 · 2021=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Rising Sun, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 151% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #44/62
  • PHOTO Transportation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transportation (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 5.0 TCR (151% of the Pickling metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Charter Steel - Fostoria TCR series: 2020=6.7 · 2021=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Charter Steel - Fostoria falls in its industry

585 Pickling metals and metal prod establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 62 Pickling metals and metal prod employers in Ohio.

Charter Steel - Fostoria (111 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Charter Steel - Fostoria
Charter Steel - Fostoria (111 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Charter Steel - Fostoria has more employees than the Pickling metals and metal products for t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2021 3.2 0.8 4 0 0
2020 6.7 3.9 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · OH · Rising Sun

585 Pickling metals and metal products for the trade 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 Transportation 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orizon Aerostructures Processing 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR EME INC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saporito Finishing Company 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Acorn Farms - Zanesville 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canton Estrn Reg Ofc 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE 902-NiSource-Columbus OH-Marble Cliff 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE KS Energy Services (Cincinnati) 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charter Steel- Fostoria 140 FTE
NAT-TCR HHHC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Metcalfe's- Tosa 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hurckman Mechanical Industries 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Good Samaritan Society Pohai Nani 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avamere Rehabilitation of Beaverton 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kautex San Antonio 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Farms South Pasadena 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Club Hill 111 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: 2021, 2020. 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.