Erecting structural steel · Virginia

Hermitage Steel

Ashland, VA · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hermitage Steel runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade D.

Hermitage Steel: 4.5 TCR = 161% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hermitage Steel safety composite

Hermitage Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hermitage Steel: 1.8 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2017

Hermitage Steel's TCR rose 5.5 from 1.8 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Ashland, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 161% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Area Erectors - Rock…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Area Erectors - Rockford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hermitage Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hermitage Steel averages 4.5 TCR (161% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

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

Hermitage Steel TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=7.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Hermitage Steel falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Erecting structural steel employers in Virginia.

Hermitage Steel (55 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hermitage Steel
Hermitage Steel (55 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Hermitage Steel has fewer employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2017 7.3 1.4 5 0 0
2016 1.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · VA · Ashland

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 134 employers in Ashland, VA · 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 Area Erectors - Rockford 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boss Steel Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Composite Construction Systems, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Manufacturing-Glasgow 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hendrix 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gregory Pallet & Lumber Roanoke 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trump Vineyard Estates LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE SERVPRO of Chesapeake 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : RIC5 1,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RIC5 1,077 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1730 RNDC-ASHLAND 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4609-1730 468 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant 2376 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Childress Gin and Elevator Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LC033 - Greencastle 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Melville (Nymel) 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3637 Republic Services Waycross 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Display, Inc. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Dixon LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 6 55 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: 2017, 2016. 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.