Steel Manufacturing · Ohio

Faircrest Steel Plant

Canton, OH · ~519 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Faircrest Steel Plant runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Faircrest Steel Plant: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Steel Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Faircrest Steel Plant safety composite

Faircrest Steel Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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%).

Faircrest Steel Plant held a steady TCR band

Faircrest Steel Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.1 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Canton, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #30/53
  • PHOTO Bedford
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 78 inj
  • SIZE ~519 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bedford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Faircrest Steel Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Faircrest Steel Plant averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Steel Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Faircrest Steel Plant TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Faircrest Steel Plant falls in its industry

416 Steel Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 53 Steel Manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Faircrest Steel Plant (519 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Faircrest Steel Plant
Faircrest Steel Plant (519 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Faircrest Steel Plant has more employees than the Steel Manufacturing 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
2021 2.8 1.2 11 3 0
2020 1.8 1.3 7 0 0
2019 3.2 2.8 17 0 0
2018 2.6 0.6 16 1 0
2017 2.9 1.0 17 1 0
2016 3.1 1.1 10 4 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · OH · Canton

416 Steel Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 330 employers in Canton, 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 Bedford 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ArcelorMittal Conshohocken 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nippon Steel Pipe America Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR U.P. MACHINE & ENGINEERING 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tenneco - Kettering Operations 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DCL3 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE George J. Igel & Co., Inc. 518 FTE
STATE-SIZE HC Companies - Middlefield 520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aultman Main Campus 3,796 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aultman Hospital 3,406 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center, Inc 2,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hosp 2,321 FTE
NAT-TCR Phoenix Lease Services LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlton Group Inc. dba Carlton Scale 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Housatonic Area Regional Transit 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR G and L Brock Construction Co 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE MRPG 519 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patheon Thermo Fisher 519 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carthage Spring #0001 519 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insulations, LLC. Houston Operations 519 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: 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.