Steel mills · Illinois

Granite City Works

Granite City, IL · ~976 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Granite City Works runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Granite City Works: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Granite City Works safety composite

Granite City Works scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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

−0.5

2016→2024

Granite City Works injury rate improved

Granite City Works's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.1 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=4.0 · 2018=2.6 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Granite City, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #14/28
  • PHOTO Gerdau Fort Smith
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 144 inj
  • SIZE ~976 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gerdau Fort Smith (0.0 TCR gap)

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Granite City Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Granite City Works averages 3.0 TCR (91% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Granite City Works TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=4 · 2018=2.6 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Granite City Works falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 28 Steel mills employers in Illinois.

Granite City Works (976 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 Granite City Works
Granite City Works (976 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Granite City Works 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 2.6 1.8 22 1 0
2023 2.6 1.4 36 1 0
2018 2.6 2.0 38 0 0
2017 4.0 2.9 31 1 1
2016 3.1 2.2 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IL · Granite City

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 80 employers in Granite City, IL · 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 Gerdau Fort Smith 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ArcelorMittal Weirton 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau Fort Smith Mill 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IronUnits LLC 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baxter/ Round Lake R & D 975 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carson's Edens Plaza 977 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airframe Systems : Niles 978 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DCH3 973 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amsted Rail Company Inc 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite City Plant 563 FTE
CITY-NEAR icon Mechanical LLC 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR KraftHeinz Granite City 351 FTE
NAT-TCR Edward Segal Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Coastal Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cash Saver #22 Meridian 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KBK Services, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - ALB1 976 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.M. Ag Enterprise, Inc. 976 FTE
NAT-SIZE WellStar Spalding Regional Medical Center 976 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashtabula County Medical Center 976 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.