Mini-mills, steel · Michigan

Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill

Jackson, MI · ~162 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mini-mills, steel workplace, earning a grade D.

Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill: 6.6 TCR = 200% of Mini-mills, steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill safety composite

Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill held a steady TCR band

Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.5 in 2023 to 6.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.5 · 2024=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Jackson, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #17/25
  • PHOTO Select Steel Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Select Steel Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill averages 6.6 TCR (200% of the Mini-mills, steel BLS benchmark).

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

Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill TCR series: 2023=6.5 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill falls in its industry

416 Mini-mills, steel establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 25 Mini-mills, steel employers in Michigan.

Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill (162 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill
Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill (162 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill has more employees than the Mini-mills, steel 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 6.7 2.8 7 5 0
2023 6.5 2.7 6 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · MI · Jackson

416 Mini-mills, steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 207 employers in Jackson, 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 Select Steel Inc 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MASW 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwest Fabrication LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairfield Works - Flat Rolled 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dykhuis Farms 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zingerman's Bakehouse, Inc. 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRANDVILLE, MI 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE CorrChoice-Mason (Michigan Packaging) 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allegiance Health 4,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Hospital Campus 3,076 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Jackson 2,045 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford- Jackson Downtown Campus 1,201 FTE
NAT-TCR AKR 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6516 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Inn at Summit Trail 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohcol - Obetz 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lexington Clinic Corporate Office 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE T.F. Hudgins, Inc. 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bartley Corporation 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crisdel Group 162 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.