Steel manufacturing · Iowa

Gerdau-Wilton Mill

Wilton, IA · ~232 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerdau-Wilton Mill runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Gerdau-Wilton Mill: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerdau-Wilton Mill safety composite

Gerdau-Wilton Mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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)
D 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−0.8

2020→2022

Gerdau-Wilton Mill injury rate improved

Gerdau-Wilton Mill's TCR fell 0.8 from 3.2 in 2020 to 2.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.2 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Wilton, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Universal Stainless …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~232 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Universal Stainless - Bridgeville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerdau-Wilton Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerdau-Wilton Mill averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gerdau-Wilton Mill TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Gerdau-Wilton Mill falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #4 safest of 10 Steel manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Gerdau-Wilton Mill (232 employees, TCR 3.0) 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-Wilton Mill
Gerdau-Wilton Mill (232 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Gerdau-Wilton Mill has more employees than the Steel manufacturing 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
2022 2.5 0.4 6 0 0
2021 3.4 2.6 8 0 0
2020 3.2 1.2 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IA · Wilton

416 Steel manufacturing 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 Universal Stainless - Bridgeville 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Madison Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR I/N Tek & Kote 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&S Steel, Inc. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wilson Trailer Company Plant 2 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williamsburg, IA 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brooklyn Area 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deb El Iowa Operating LLC 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. 226 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 The Dana On Mission Bay 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Butterball Hatchery # 3 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #428 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R. Montanez Farms, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delmar 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE DPR Construction - Raleigh Durham 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bonide products llc 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mettler Toledo - Worthington Facility 232 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.