Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Virginia

East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc.

Chesapeake, VA · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc.: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. safety composite

East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−2.6

2016→2018

East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. injury rate improved

East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.6 from 5.6 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2018=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Chesapeake, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/41
  • PHOTO Corsetti Structural …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corsetti Structural Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

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East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2018=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. falls in its industry

1,491 Barge sections, prefabricated establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 41 Barge sections, prefabricated employers in Virginia.

East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. (34 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc.
East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. (34 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

East Coast Steel Fabricators, Inc. has fewer employees than the Barge sections, prefabricated metal, man median and a lower 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 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.6 2.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · VA · Chesapeake

1,491 Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 434 employers in Chesapeake, VA · 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 Corsetti Structural Steel 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Dorado KS 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Met-Con. Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Machine 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Blue Ridge Aquaculture 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williams Logging Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEAR GARDEN 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE INGENCO/CCI Dabney 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF2 2,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chesapeake Regional Medical Center 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC Chesapeake, Inc. 1,056 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossways 931 FTE
NAT-TCR West Basin, CA 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - West Reading North 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR EBM Construction, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TG Gallagher 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE W.C. Transport 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Friedges Drywall, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta CPC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE NatureScapes 34 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, 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.