Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Contractors Steel Company VB

Belleville, MI · ~149 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Contractors Steel Company VB runs at 609% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Contractors Steel Company VB: 13.4 TCR = 609% of Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Contractors Steel Company VB safety composite

Contractors Steel Company VB scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Contractors Steel Company VB: 9.1 → 17.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2018

Contractors Steel Company VB's TCR rose 8.6 from 9.1 in 2017 to 17.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Belleville, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 609% of ind

  • DART 11.8 DART
  • RANK #59/60
  • PHOTO Ideal Steel
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ideal Steel (0.1 TCR gap)

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Contractors Steel Company VB in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Contractors Steel Company VB averages 13.4 TCR (609% of the Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Contractors Steel Company VB TCR series: 2017=9.1 · 2018=17.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Contractors Steel Company VB falls in its industry

1,299 Metal products (e.g., bars, in establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 60 Metal products (e.g., bars, in employers in Michigan.

Contractors Steel Company VB (149 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Contractors Steel Company VB
Contractors Steel Company VB (149 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Contractors Steel Company VB has more employees than the Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plat median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 17.7 11.8 30 0 0
2017 9.1 7.9 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · MI · Belleville

1,299 Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 70 employers in Belleville, MI · 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 Ideal Steel 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KGS Steel, INC 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Contractors Steel Company GR 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PMI Pipe, Steel & Supplies - San Antonio 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trombley Service Center 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vredevoogd Heating and Cooling 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mersino Dewatering/Global Pump 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE E.T. MacKenzie Company 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEAPCO Drivelines 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5481 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR LW Engineering Plant 2 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2872 300 FTE
NAT-TCR S04513 - Texas Waste Mgmt - Lewisville 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Office/Shop 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AristaCare 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wausau Hampton Inn 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE WilmingtonDC 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE LifeShare Blood Center - Shreveport 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sioux City (Iasio) 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 7B 149 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.