Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · New York

J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel

Rochester, NY · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel safety composite

J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel held a steady TCR band

J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.3 in 2022 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Rochester, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #7/46
  • PHOTO Titusville Enterpris…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Titusville Enterprises, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel averages 2.3 TCR (68% 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

J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel TCR series: 2022=3.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 46 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in New York.

J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel (28 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel
J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel (28 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

J. Kozel & Son, Inc. dba Kozel Steel has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a lower 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
2024 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.3 3.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · NY · Rochester

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 956 employers in Rochester, NY · 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 Titusville Enterprises, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau - Perth Amboy RS 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schoover Industries 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bedford L.B. Foster Company 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE White Eagle Dairy LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milk Street Dairy, LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Independence Energy Facility 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE TLS Scotia 5210-NYEE 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Division 50 University of Rochester 13,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester General Hospital 7,833 FTE
CITY-NEAR Division 40 University of Rochester 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Hospital 3,158 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express, Grandville 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ecological Land Services 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wartsila North America Inc. - Houston 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wyckoff Farms, Inc. dba MicroDried 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kenansville Neogen 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Limestone Township Fire Protection District 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilshire Nursing Home, LLC dba The Wilshire Skilled Nursing and Therapy 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Nursing Home, LLC dba Western Skilled Nursing and Therapy 28 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.