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

Charter Steel - Fostoria

Risingsun, OH · ~119 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charter Steel - Fostoria runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Billets, steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Charter Steel - Fostoria: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Billets, steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charter Steel - Fostoria safety composite

Charter Steel - Fostoria scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2016→2019

Charter Steel - Fostoria injury rate improved

Charter Steel - Fostoria's TCR fell 4.4 from 5.2 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Risingsun, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #20/53
  • PHOTO Clairton Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clairton Plant (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 2.1 TCR (63% of the Billets, 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 - Fostoria TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Charter Steel - Fostoria falls in its industry

416 Billets, steel, made in iron a establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #20 safest of 53 Billets, steel, made in iron a employers in Ohio.

Charter Steel - Fostoria (119 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 - Fostoria
Charter Steel - Fostoria (119 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Charter Steel - Fostoria has fewer employees than the Billets, steel, made in iron and steel m median and a lower 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
2019 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2018 1.5 0.8 2 0 0
2017 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.2 3.5 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · OH · Risingsun

416 Billets, steel, made in iron and steel mills 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 Clairton Plant 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Offshore Operations Houston 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau North America Steel Midlothian Mill 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferroglobe Bridgeport Alabama 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Erie Construction Co. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE US162: Cleveland 515 - SG 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agrana Fruit US, Inc. Botkins 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Millwork Brands Inc 119 FTE
NAT-TCR Barnes Bullets, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Reliable Disposal 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NDX Lords 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Acme Smoked Fish of NC 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE All American Commercial Roofing, Inc DBA All American Exterior Solutions Commercial 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lanessa MA SNF LLC 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eldercare of Mid Missouri XIV, Inc dba Frene Valley of Owensville - A StoneBridge Community 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logistics 119 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: 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.