Metals service centers · Illinois

Crawford Steel

Chicago, IL · ~40 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Crawford Steel runs at 438% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metals service centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Crawford Steel: 9.6 TCR = 438% of Metals service centers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Crawford Steel safety composite

Crawford Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Crawford Steel: 6.6 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

Crawford Steel's TCR rose 4.8 from 6.6 in 2017 to 11.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 438% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #97/107
  • PHOTO 09 - Dayton (TD)
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 09 - Dayton (TD) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Crawford Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Crawford Steel averages 9.6 TCR (438% of the Metals service centers BLS benchmark).

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

Crawford Steel TCR series: 2017=6.6 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=17 · 2020=10 · 2021=5 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=13.7 · 2024=11.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Crawford Steel falls in its industry

1,299 Metals service centers establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #97 safest of 107 Metals service centers employers in Illinois.

Crawford Steel (40 employees, TCR 9.6) 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 Crawford Steel
Crawford Steel (40 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Crawford Steel has fewer employees than the Metals service centers 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
2024 11.5 9.2 5 0 0
2023 13.7 9.2 6 0 0
2022 8.8 6.6 4 0 0
2021 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2020 10.0 5.0 4 0 0
2019 17.0 17.0 7 0 0
2018 4.5 2.3 2 0 0
2017 6.6 4.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Chicago

1,299 Metals service centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 09 - Dayton (TD) 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Action Stainless & Alloys - Houston 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triad Metals International Indiana 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NorthStar Steel & Aluminum, Inc. 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Integrity Management 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bloomington Reporting Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Downers Grove Sanitary District 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Window Works Addison 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR 057/Charlotte 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Murrieta 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ANC Alaska Airlines Cargo 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sequoias San Francisco 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Middle Georgia Electric Membership Cooperation 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rock River Fabrications 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Exp 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Three M Tool & Machine, Inc. 40 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.