Steel mills · Pennsylvania

Ellwood Quality Steels

New Castle, PA · ~212 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ellwood Quality Steels runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Ellwood Quality Steels: 8.9 TCR = 270% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ellwood Quality Steels safety composite

Ellwood Quality Steels scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−3.0

2016→2024

Ellwood Quality Steels injury rate improved

Ellwood Quality Steels's TCR fell 3.0 from 8.9 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.9 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · New Castle, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 270% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #46/53
  • PHOTO Phillips
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 143 inj
  • SIZE ~212 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phillips (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ellwood Quality Steels in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ellwood Quality Steels averages 8.9 TCR (270% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Ellwood Quality Steels TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ellwood Quality Steels falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 53 Steel mills employers in Pennsylvania.

Ellwood Quality Steels (212 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ellwood Quality Steels
Ellwood Quality Steels (212 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Ellwood Quality Steels has more employees than the Steel mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 6.0 2.8 15 0 0
2023 9.2 4.2 22 0 0
2022 10.4 5.6 21 3 0
2021 11.9 6.2 13 12 0
2020 9.4 3.1 15 6 0
2019 6.5 1.6 11 5 0
2018 10.3 5.4 15 8 0
2017 7.7 3.6 14 1 0
2016 8.9 4.2 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · PA · New Castle

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 91 employers in New Castle, PA · 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 Phillips 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ever-Roll Specialties Co 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Forge, Inc 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prime Metals Acquisition, LLC 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE L&W APPAREL CO INC dba LEGACY ATHLETIC 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHIPPENVILLE (Colony Homes) 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Maple Press Company 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE BPG USA- Fairfield 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Jameson 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR DON 805 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Castle 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2287 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Micro Abrasives Corp. 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Police 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE University Retirement Community 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alliant Systems, LLC 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerber Childrenswear 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE FC: Stockton 212 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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