manufacture · Illinois

Esmark Steel

Chicago Heights, IL · ~112 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Esmark Steel runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical manufacture workplace, earning a grade D.

Esmark Steel: 3.8 TCR = 175% of manufacture BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Esmark Steel safety composite

Esmark Steel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Esmark Steel: 1.8 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.2× in 2023

Esmark Steel's TCR rose 2.1 from 1.8 in 2019 to 3.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #54/107
  • PHOTO Boyd Metals of Tyler…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boyd Metals of Tyler, Texas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Esmark Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Esmark Steel averages 3.8 TCR (175% of the manufacture BLS benchmark).

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

Esmark Steel TCR series: 2019=1.8 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=5 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Esmark Steel falls in its industry

1,299 manufacture establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 107 manufacture employers in Illinois.

Esmark Steel (112 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Esmark Steel
Esmark Steel (112 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Esmark Steel has more employees than the manufacture median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2023 3.9 0.8 4 1 0
2022 5.2 5.2 5 0 0
2021 5.0 3.0 5 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 3 0 0
2019 1.8 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Chicago Heights

1,299 manufacture employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, IL · 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 Boyd Metals of Tyler, Texas 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR INFRA-METALS CO-GA 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tennessee Steel Center 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMI Metals KS 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Home Forever Baths Company (DBA- Pacific Bath Chicago) 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lindblad Construction Company of Joliet, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE G. E. Riddiford Company, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE FE Moran Special Hazards 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Aurora Medical Center Kenosha 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HomeReach HomeCare 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Stop & Shop 0596 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR crc/mastercraft, inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vancrest of Ada 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fomas Inc, 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE A. Preman Roofing, Inc. 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE HMB North Property 112 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.