Steel mills · North Carolina

Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill

Charlotte, NC · ~249 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill runs at 209% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill: 6.9 TCR = 209% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill safety composite

Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill: 5.6 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill's TCR rose 2.7 from 5.6 in 2023 to 8.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 209% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Ameristeel INc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~249 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ameristeel INc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill averages 6.9 TCR (209% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill TCR series: 2023=5.6 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Steel mills employers in North Carolina.

Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill (249 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill
Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill (249 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc.- Charlotte Mill has more employees than the Steel mills 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
2024 8.3 6.1 23 0 0
2023 5.6 1.1 12 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · NC · Charlotte

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 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 Ameristeel INc 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascade Steel Rolling Mills 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Tube Corporation 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crucible Industries llc 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Simply Southern Holdings, LLC 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodrich Corporation (Monroe NC) 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fred Anderson Toyota 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6921-00366 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR RLSC Taylor 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Homestead 10250 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Niagara Falls 10237 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale East Side 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Guardian Fabrication LLC 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE The de Moya Group 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calel - San Bernardino Gateway 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vacha - Charlottesville 249 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.