Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Tennessee

Custom Steel #1

Columbia, TN · ~24 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Custom Steel #1 runs at 384% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Custom Steel #1: 12.7 TCR = 384% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Custom Steel #1 safety composite

Custom Steel #1 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

Custom Steel #1: 0.0 → 14.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 24.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Custom Steel #1's TCR rose 14.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 14.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 24.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Columbia, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 384% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Middle West Mfg Corp.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Middle West Mfg Corp. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Custom Steel #1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Custom Steel #1 averages 12.7 TCR (384% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Custom Steel #1 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=10.9 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=12.7 · 2020=13.5 · 2021=14 · 2022=24.4 · 2023=17.6 · 2024=14.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Custom Steel #1 falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Tennessee.

Custom Steel #1 (24 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Custom Steel #1
Custom Steel #1 (24 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Custom Steel #1 has fewer employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 14.1 0.0 3 0 0
2023 17.6 11.8 2 1 0
2022 24.4 12.2 4 0 0
2021 14.0 0.0 3 0 0
2020 13.5 0.0 3 0 0
2019 12.7 12.7 3 0 0
2018 6.7 3.4 2 0 0
2017 10.9 3.6 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · TN · Columbia

449 Fabricated plate work manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 79 employers in Columbia, TN · 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 Middle West Mfg Corp. 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kapco Hickory 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Natural Structures 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MKT Metal Mfg. 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE RIVERSIDE FUQUA FARMS LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Warren-Viola Utility District 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOB 268BG Rutherford County 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maury Regional Medical Center 2,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maury County Government 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia State Community College 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 192 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Carmeco Inc. 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pittsboro Christian Village, Inc. 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sauk Centre Store 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Channel Fish Co. Inc 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hungerford Growers Gin, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valu Home Center #49 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eversource - Lancaster 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Serco - New Orleans,LA 24 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.