Steel mills · Illinois

Highway Steel

Chicago Heights, IL · ~100 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highway Steel runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Highway Steel: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highway Steel safety composite

Highway Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Highway Steel: 4.0 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

Highway Steel's TCR rose 4.2 from 4.0 in 2017 to 8.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #23/28
  • PHOTO Hellenbrand
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hellenbrand (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highway Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highway Steel averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Highway Steel TCR series: 2017=4 · 2021=5 · 2022=6.8 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Highway Steel falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #23 safest of 28 Steel mills employers in Illinois.

Highway Steel (100 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Highway Steel
Highway Steel (100 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Highway Steel has fewer 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 8.2 4.8 12 0 0
2022 6.8 2.3 9 0 0
2021 5.0 2.1 7 0 0
2017 4.0 3.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IL · Chicago Heights

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, 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 Hellenbrand 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeland Company Inc 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reliance Metal Center 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ellwood National Steel 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE TCR SYSTEMS LLC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dealer Installation 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evans Electric 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rethink Electric LLC 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR William Woods University 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MacArthur Company - Energy Panel Structures IA 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Thomas Tire & Automotive Store #3 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MTX Logistics Corp. 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 62F3 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE High-Light Electric Inc. 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chamberlain Group (Tuscon DC) 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Three Rivers Health and Rehabilitation 100 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, 2022, 2021, 2017. 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.