Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Nebraska

Drake-Williams Steel

Omaha, NE · ~162 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Drake-Williams Steel runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Drake-Williams Steel: 5.2 TCR = 156% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Drake-Williams Steel safety composite

Drake-Williams Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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)
D 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Drake-Williams Steel: 3.1 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2018

Drake-Williams Steel's TCR rose 0.9 from 3.1 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Omaha, NE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 156% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #12/18
  • PHOTO SEABOX Hillsborough
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SEABOX Hillsborough (0.0 TCR gap)

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Drake-Williams Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Drake-Williams Steel averages 5.2 TCR (156% 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

Drake-Williams Steel TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=8.5 · 2018=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Drake-Williams Steel falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 18 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Nebraska.

Drake-Williams Steel (162 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Drake-Williams Steel
Drake-Williams Steel (162 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Drake-Williams Steel 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
2018 3.9 2.8 7 0 0
2017 8.5 6.6 14 0 0
2016 3.1 1.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · NE · Omaha

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 1,135 employers in Omaha, NE · 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 SEABOX Hillsborough 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raulli and Sons 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPI-Fab Shop Anderson 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange County Ironworks, LLC 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Concrete Industries 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORFOLK NE - 3103 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00319 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chief Agri Industrial 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Drivers Management LLC/Over the Road Drivers 9,373 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nebraska Medicine 8,728 FTE
CITY-NEAR FUSION MEDICAL STAFFING, LLC 2,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR 61830001 METHODIST HOSPITAL 2,861 FTE
NAT-TCR Scs - 1655 Worldwide (Kywrw) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ITC Missouri 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Middleburg Heights (Ohmid) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 111-115 Thomasville 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE JFSNA at ExxonMobil Complex Baton Rouge 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wall Street 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE BioScrip Infusion Services - Morris Plains - 2300 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services - Lancaster 162 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.