Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Michigan

Ideal Steel, LLC.

Detroit, MI · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ideal Steel, LLC. runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ideal Steel, LLC.: 6.4 TCR = 195% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ideal Steel, LLC. safety composite

Ideal Steel, LLC. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Ideal Steel, LLC.: 0.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Ideal Steel, LLC.'s TCR rose 8.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 195% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/38
  • PHOTO Martha's Materials I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Martha's Materials Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ideal Steel, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ideal Steel, LLC. averages 6.4 TCR (195% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ideal Steel, LLC. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=10.9 · 2018=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ideal Steel, LLC. falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 38 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Michigan.

Ideal Steel, LLC. (19 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ideal Steel, LLC.
Ideal Steel, LLC. (19 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Ideal Steel, LLC. has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 8.4 0.0 2 0 0
2017 10.9 10.9 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · MI · Detroit

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Martha's Materials Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Fabrication 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vicon Fabricating 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Welding and Steel 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Everbest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (Greenhouse) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rieth-Riley - Houghton Lake 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arenac County Road Commission 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR Sioux Falls Airsort (Sdsfa) 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DSAR Lamar 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Forest 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ATI Cast Products Salem Operations 6.4 TCR

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, 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.