Steel manufacturing · West Virginia

Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton

Weirton, WV · ~655 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton: 2.2 TCR = 67% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton safety composite

Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−1.1

2022→2024

Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton injury rate improved

Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton's TCR fell 1.1 from 3.1 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.1 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Weirton, WV AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 67% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Harrison Steel Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~655 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harrison Steel Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton averages 2.2 TCR (67% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Steel manufacturing employers in West Virginia.

Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton (655 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton
Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton (655 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Cleveland-Cliffs - Weirton has more employees than the Steel manufacturing 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
2024 2.0 1.2 5 0 0
2023 1.5 0.7 11 0 0
2022 3.1 1.6 26 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · WV · Weirton

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 37 employers in Weirton, WV · 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 Harrison Steel Plant 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heater Specialists, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Supply Inc 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butler Sheet 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DC-100 DISTRIBUTION RD WHEELING WV 649 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Virginia's Choice Inc - Huntington 645 FTE
STATE-SIZE HNTNWVUV 673 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARTINSBURG WV - CAPERTON BLVD 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weirton Medical Center 1,228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weirton Medical Corporation 1,196 FTE
CITY-NEAR ArcelorMittal Weirton 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acuity Specialty Hospital - Ohio Valley, L.P. (d/b/a/ Select Specialty Hospital - Weirton) 361 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakewood Organics, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 246 - Canal Winchester OH 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 188 - Livonia 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 116 - S Wheeling St Oregon 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lithia Springs, GA - Sydney Ct 655 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agricultural Computerized Technology Inc 655 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stickney WRP 655 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fountain Inn 655 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, 2022. 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.