Erecting structural steel · North Carolina

Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc.

Apex, NC · ~15 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc. runs at 337% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc.: 9.4 TCR = 337% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc. safety composite

Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc.: 0.0 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 23.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2024

Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc.'s TCR rose 9.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 23.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Apex, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 337% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #19/21
  • PHOTO Chicago Steel Constr…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chicago Steel Construction, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc. averages 9.4 TCR (337% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

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

Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=14.4 · 2021=14.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=23.1 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc. falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 21 Erecting structural steel employers in North Carolina.

Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc. (15 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc.
Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc. (15 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Citadel Steel Erectors, Inc. has fewer employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a higher 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 9.3 9.3 1 0 0
2023 23.1 11.6 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 14.5 14.5 2 0 0
2020 14.4 7.2 2 0 0
2019 13.3 6.6 2 0 0
2018 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · NC · Apex

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 92 employers in Apex, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Chicago Steel Construction, LLC 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GP Industries dba Reno Iron Works 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carrara Steel Erectors 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Steel Erectors Inc. 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Strickland Farms, Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Camden 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Raleigh 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvey Gin 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operation 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operations 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crowder Construction Company - Civil & Environmental Division 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donley's Concrete Group LLC 321 FTE
NAT-TCR Ormson's Foods of Glenwood City, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Office 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR American Excelsior Company Rice Lake 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Omaha, Ne 9.4 TCR

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.