Blast furnace slag processing · Iowa

Harsco Metals & Minerals

Muscatine, IA · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harsco Metals & Minerals runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Blast furnace slag processing workplace, earning a grade A.

Harsco Metals & Minerals: 1.0 TCR = 32% of Blast furnace slag processing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harsco Metals & Minerals safety composite

Harsco Metals & Minerals scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Harsco Metals & Minerals: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2018

Harsco Metals & Minerals's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327992 · Muscatine, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK P80
  • PHOTO Harsco Sarver
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harsco Sarver (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harsco Metals & Minerals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harsco Metals & Minerals averages 1.0 TCR (32% of the Blast furnace slag processing BLS benchmark).

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

Harsco Metals & Minerals TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Harsco Metals & Minerals falls in its industry

97 Blast furnace slag processing establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Harsco Metals & Minerals (110 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Harsco Metals & Minerals
Harsco Metals & Minerals (110 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Harsco Metals & Minerals has more employees than the Blast furnace slag processing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2018 2.1 1.4 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327992 · IA · Muscatine

97 Blast furnace slag processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 79 employers in Muscatine, 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 Harsco Sarver 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Levy Environmental Services Company - Fulton 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edw. C. Levy Co. - Detroit Plant 1 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TMS Axis 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Neal South 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winnebago County 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARSHALLTOWN, IA 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE HARSCO METALS 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highway 61 982 FTE
CITY-NEAR HON Company Administration 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSAB Iowa Inc. 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) 466 FTE
NAT-TCR Sales - Great Smokies - The Wilderness 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3495-11DA550 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Russellville Sheet Feeder 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Milpitas Container 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverdale Center 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-X Avon LLC 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE QSI Vienna 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Datalabel Elgin 110 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: 2018, 2017. 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.