Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Ohio

David Hirschberg Steel Company

Cincinnati, OH · ~24 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

David Hirschberg Steel Company runs at 385% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

David Hirschberg Steel Company: 8.5 TCR = 385% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

David Hirschberg Steel Company safety composite

David Hirschberg Steel Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

David Hirschberg Steel Company: 3.7 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 25.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2023

David Hirschberg Steel Company's TCR rose 8.7 from 3.7 in 2016 to 12.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 25.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 385% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #66/79
  • PHOTO Farnsworth
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farnsworth (0.0 TCR gap)

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David Hirschberg Steel Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows David Hirschberg Steel Company averages 8.5 TCR (385% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

David Hirschberg Steel Company TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2018=25.1 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=12.4 · BLS 2.2

Where David Hirschberg Steel Company falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #66 safest of 79 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Ohio.

David Hirschberg Steel Company (24 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate David Hirschberg Steel Company
David Hirschberg Steel Company (24 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

David Hirschberg Steel Company has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2023 12.4 8.3 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.3 4.6 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 25.1 16.8 3 0 0
2016 3.7 3.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · OH · Cincinnati

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, OH · 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 Farnsworth 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro Green Recycling 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elizabeth Facility 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JRS 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE LCN 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES: Fremont 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMP Fremont Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bucyrus Service Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Hawkeye Molding Company, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North 40 Outfitters #8 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Arc Allegany-Steuben- Babbitt 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Myers FL 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walker Farms, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burhans Glass Company Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Metal Fabricating, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Assisted Living 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.