Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · Ohio

Foundation Steel, LLC

Swanton, OH · ~170 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foundation Steel, LLC runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Foundation Steel, LLC: 1.7 TCR = 60% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foundation Steel, LLC safety composite

Foundation Steel, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−2.6

2016→2024

Foundation Steel, LLC injury rate improved

Foundation Steel, LLC's TCR fell 2.6 from 4.3 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Swanton, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #40/141
  • PHOTO Kokosing Constructio…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kokosing Construction Company, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foundation Steel, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foundation Steel, LLC averages 1.7 TCR (60% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Foundation Steel, LLC TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Foundation Steel, LLC falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 141 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Ohio.

Foundation Steel, LLC (170 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Foundation Steel, LLC
Foundation Steel, LLC (170 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Foundation Steel, LLC has more employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 1.8 0.4 4 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2022 1.6 1.0 3 0 0
2021 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2017 3.9 1.0 4 0 0
2016 4.3 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · OH · Swanton

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 15 employers in Swanton, 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 Kokosing Construction Company, Inc 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blankenberger Brothers, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nielson Construction 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mar Jim Contracting LLC 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Cottage Gardens, Inc. 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Albany Transmission Op Ctr 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE 104844 - Yellowbud 364MWdc Solar 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE MWC Regional Office 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tronair 330 FTE
CITY-NEAR TOLXL0001 TOLXL0001 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR 016-00504 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swanton Health Care & Retirement Center 81 FTE
NAT-TCR Administration Building 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Angleton 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kotze Construction Co., Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR River Oaks Place Loudon 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE CVG 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Univance Inc 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Biotics Research Corp. 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodruff Construction, Inc 170 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.