Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Ferrous Strong Steel

Detroit, MI · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ferrous Strong Steel runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Ferrous Strong Steel: 2.4 TCR = 108% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ferrous Strong Steel safety composite

Ferrous Strong Steel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.7

2023→2024

Ferrous Strong Steel injury rate improved

Ferrous Strong Steel's TCR fell 4.7 from 4.7 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/62
  • PHOTO OmniSource, LLC. - J…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OmniSource, LLC. - Johnson City Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ferrous Strong Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ferrous Strong Steel averages 2.4 TCR (108% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ferrous Strong Steel TCR series: 2023=4.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Ferrous Strong Steel falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 62 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Michigan.

Ferrous Strong Steel (22 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ferrous Strong Steel
Ferrous Strong Steel (22 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Ferrous Strong Steel has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.7 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · MI · Detroit

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, MI · 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 OmniSource, LLC. - Johnson City Main 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Metals Recycling - River Road 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OmniSource LLC - Holt 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sattler Plastics Co 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skymint Silo59 Production Facility 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE PRT Brighton 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cadillac Renewable Energy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benzonia 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR Crown Electric, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR WS Aiken 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoist Material Handling 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-711 THOMLIN MILL ROAD 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverside Healthcare Services 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jerrys Do It Best Hardware Bloomington - 5216 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shawano Place Senior Living 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stairworks, Inc 22 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.