Tool steel made in iron and steel mills · Kentucky

Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division

Ashland, KY · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tool steel made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division: 7.8 TCR = 237% of Tool steel made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division safety composite

Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−8.0

2016→2018

Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division injury rate improved

Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division's TCR fell 8.0 from 11.9 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.9 · 2017=7.6 · 2018=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Ashland, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 237% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO Gerdau Beaumont Mill
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gerdau Beaumont Mill (0.1 TCR gap)

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Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division averages 7.8 TCR (237% of the Tool steel made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division TCR series: 2016=11.9 · 2017=7.6 · 2018=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division falls in its industry

416 Tool steel made in iron and st establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Tool steel made in iron and st employers in Kentucky.

Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division (26 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division
Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division (26 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Esm Group Inc. - Casting Division has fewer employees than the Tool steel made in iron and 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
2018 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 7.6 7.6 2 0 0
2016 11.9 4.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · KY · Ashland

416 Tool steel made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 79 employers in Ashland, KY · 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 Gerdau Beaumont Mill 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc., dba Liberty Steel and Wire - Peoria 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Heights Steel 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Union Electric Steel- Carnegie Plant 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 830 Grassy Springs 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 222-NiSource-Ashland KY-Service Cent 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3510 COLEMAN RD PADUCAH KY 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE INTEC Group LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kings Daughters Medical Center 4,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital 1,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1426 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1426 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Loews Regency San Francisco 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Schutt Reconditioning 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Headquarters 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 050 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hc Hoodco 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luling PVF 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Construction,L.L.C. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technology Plastics LLC 26 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.