Steel merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago

East Chicago, IN · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago runs at 582% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago: 12.8 TCR = 582% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago safety composite

Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago: 12.5 → 21.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 21.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.64× in 2024

Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago's TCR rose 8.5 from 12.5 in 2022 to 21.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · East Chicago, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 582% of ind

  • DART 21.0 DART
  • RANK #73/75
  • PHOTO Colonial Metal Produ…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colonial Metal Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago averages 12.8 TCR (582% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago TCR series: 2022=12.5 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=21 · BLS 2.2

Where Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #73 safest of 75 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Indiana.

Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago (37 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago
Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago (37 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago has fewer employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 21.0 21.0 4 0 0
2023 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2022 12.5 4.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IN · East Chicago

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 69 employers in East Chicago, IN · 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 Colonial Metal Products, Inc. 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR O'Brien Steel Service - Meta Tec 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colonial Metal Products 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISSC INC DBA SEAPORT STEEL - Vancouver 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Utopian Plants Indiana, LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cokenergy 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORE Construction Indiana, LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1038 - BELFOR Indianapolis IN 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcelormittal Indiana Harbor 3,844 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs - Indiana Harbor 3,192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar East Chicago 1,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar Casino and Hotel East Chicago 1,155 FTE
NAT-TCR GCG-Gynecology Center Greensboro 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone RV Oregon - Plant 901 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plumb Supply Company - Mason City 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Leader Distribution Systems, inc. 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE TAMKO Building Products LLC - Rangeline 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Springs Retirement Community, LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corpus Christi Grain Port Location 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riedman Properties EP1 LLC 37 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, 2022. 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.