Steel merchant wholesalers · California

Fry Steel Co.

Santa Fe Springs, CA · ~90 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fry Steel Co. runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Fry Steel Co.: 2.6 TCR = 118% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fry Steel Co. safety composite

Fry Steel Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−3.1

2019→2024

Fry Steel Co. injury rate improved

Fry Steel Co.'s TCR fell 3.1 from 5.5 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.5 · 2020=2.5 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Santa Fe Springs, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 118% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #35/91
  • PHOTO TW Metals - LA
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TW Metals - LA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fry Steel Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fry Steel Co. averages 2.6 TCR (118% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Fry Steel Co. TCR series: 2019=5.5 · 2020=2.5 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Fry Steel Co. falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 91 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in California.

Fry Steel Co. (90 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Fry Steel Co.
Fry Steel Co. (90 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Fry Steel Co. has more employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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
2024 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2019 5.5 4.4 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · CA · Santa Fe Springs

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 310 employers in Santa Fe Springs, CA · 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 TW Metals - LA 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Steel Aerospace - Windsor CT 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDM Stockton 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endura Steel-Ft Mojave Steel 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Davis West Research Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland America Flowers, LLC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hettinga - California 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE A & R Contracting 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 423 3,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSI Electrical Contractors, Inc. 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSI 1,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vans Distribution Center - SFS 757 FTE
NAT-TCR Ankeny Ia Sales Center 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nmros - Roswell Center 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 110 Metalworks, Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tasco Plumbing & Mechanical Services 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE EB Meadows 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE BiOrigin Specialty Products 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mober - St Louis Air Gateway 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Msmer - Meridian 90 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, 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.