Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · New York

Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc

Cortland, NY · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc safety composite

Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc: 0.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 3.01× in 2023

Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc's TCR rose 4.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 4.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Cortland, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO CST Industries Winch…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CST Industries Winchester (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc averages 1.4 TCR (44% of the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc falls in its industry

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Buildings, prefabricated metal employers in New York.

Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc (25 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc
Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc (25 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc has fewer employees than the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · NY · Cortland

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 73 employers in Cortland, NY · 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 CST Industries Winchester 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shrock Prefab, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BlueScope Buildings Visalia 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MBCI Adel 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Nurseries, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE 242 Madava New York 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenwood dairy Farm LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scipio Springs Dairy 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hook 1,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cortland YWCA SITE 1,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell 990 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinton 990 FTE
NAT-TCR Jennings 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Hampshire 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 048-Hereford/E Park 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR JMD Architectural Products, Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas Gallery 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Les Schwab Tire Center-Hood River 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Les Schwab Tire Center-Sprinfield 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Les Schwab Tire Center-Burley 25 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, 2021, 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.