Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade · Ohio

Erie Steel LTD

Toledo, OH · ~44 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Erie Steel LTD runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Erie Steel LTD: 4.9 TCR = 149% of Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Erie Steel LTD safety composite

Erie Steel LTD scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Erie Steel LTD: 2.1 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Erie Steel LTD's TCR rose 4.3 from 2.1 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · Toledo, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 149% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/34
  • PHOTO Nitrex Inc - Nevada …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nitrex Inc - Nevada Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Erie Steel LTD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Erie Steel LTD averages 4.9 TCR (149% of the Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Erie Steel LTD TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Erie Steel LTD falls in its industry

248 Heat treating metals and metal establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 34 Heat treating metals and metal employers in Ohio.

Erie Steel LTD (44 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Erie Steel LTD
Erie Steel LTD (44 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Erie Steel LTD has more employees than the Heat treating metals and metal products median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2022 6.4 0.0 3 0 0
2021 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 7.5 2.5 3 0 0
2019 4.6 2.3 2 0 0
2018 7.2 7.2 3 0 0
2017 4.3 0.0 2 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · OH · Toledo

248 Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 551 employers in Toledo, 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 Nitrex Inc - Nevada Operations 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nitrex, Inc. IN 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tejas Tubular Products Casing 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA Richards Group 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.T.S.S. Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Day Farms - Croton 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Licking Rural Electricfication 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus SE Service Center 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toledo Assembly Complex 5,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Toledo Hospital 5,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toledo Hospital 4,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Promedica Downtown Headquarters 3,308 FTE
NAT-TCR Coil Processors LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HG463 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Y Foods, Inc. Facilities Maintenance 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Merit Health Rankin 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG403 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG451 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luther Cadillac 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG1025 44 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: 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.