Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · South Carolina

Dave Steel Company

Chesnee, SC · ~71 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dave Steel Company runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dave Steel Company: 7.3 TCR = 221% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dave Steel Company safety composite

Dave Steel Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.3

2018→2021

Dave Steel Company injury rate improved

Dave Steel Company's TCR fell 9.3 from 12.8 in 2018 to 3.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=12.8 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Chesnee, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 221% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #19/22
  • PHOTO TYLER STEEL COMPANY
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TYLER STEEL COMPANY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dave Steel Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dave Steel Company averages 7.3 TCR (221% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dave Steel Company TCR series: 2018=12.8 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Dave Steel Company falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 22 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in South Carolina.

Dave Steel Company (71 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dave Steel Company
Dave Steel Company (71 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Dave Steel Company has more employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2021 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2020 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2019 9.4 4.7 4 0 0
2018 12.8 7.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · SC · Chesnee

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 7 employers in Chesnee, SC · 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 TYLER STEEL COMPANY 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parsons Steel Builders 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cody Builders Supply Steel Group L.L.C. 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TrueNorth Steel-Billings 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Edisto Electric Cooperative, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fairfield Electric Cooperative, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Langston Construction LLC of the Piedmont 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roebuck Buildings Co., Inc. 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tribal Manufacturing SC 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1808-00020104-05178 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02834 - STORE # 2834 CHESNEE 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Drinking Water Treatment 27 FTE
NAT-TCR Windsor Gardens Healthcare Ctr of the Valley 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Signal Mountain Lodge, LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Synthetic Rubber 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR High School 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Care Center 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sierra Vista Health Care Center 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSSI - 0630 Pilgrim's - Sanford 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckeye Diamond Logistics - Lakeland 71 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.