Billets, steel, made in iron and steel mills · Iowa

Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc.

Wilton, IA · ~226 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Billets, steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc.: 5.4 TCR = 163% of Billets, steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. safety composite

Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−2.8

2018→2019

Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. injury rate improved

Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc.'s TCR fell 2.8 from 6.8 in 2018 to 4.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.8 · 2019=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Wilton, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Davis Iron Works, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Davis Iron Works, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. averages 5.4 TCR (163% of the Billets, steel, made in iron and 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. TCR series: 2018=6.8 · 2019=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. falls in its industry

416 Billets, steel, made in iron a establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Billets, steel, made in iron a employers in Iowa.

Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. (226 employees, TCR 5.4) 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.
Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. (226 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. has more employees than the Billets, steel, made in iron and steel m 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
2019 4.0 1.2 10 0 0
2018 6.8 0.5 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IA · Wilton

416 Billets, steel, made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 13 employers in Wilton, IA · 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 Davis Iron Works, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VINTON STEEL, LLC. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Galvanizing 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferrous85" Co. 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Council Bluffs Prepared 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE TSTI Newton 1550 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sudenga Industries Inc 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH33 Reid 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gerdau-Wilton Mill 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDS Global Wilton 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilton Retirement Community 75 FTE
NAT-TCR ALD Precast Corp. WHOLE COMPANY 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Marinemax East, Inc.-Mysc 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LBrands - Morse Campus 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Freeland yard 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3471 Campus (Corporate, MMF, Richards) 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer 193 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vinculums Services LLC 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vinculums Services 226 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: 2019, 2018. 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.