Steel merchant wholesalers · Alabama

KGS Steel, INC

Bessemer, AL · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KGS Steel, INC runs at 612% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

KGS Steel, INC: 13.5 TCR = 612% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KGS Steel, INC safety composite

KGS Steel, INC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

KGS Steel, INC: 10.9 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2019

KGS Steel, INC's TCR rose 5.2 from 10.9 in 2017 to 16.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Bessemer, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.5 · 612% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #42/44
  • PHOTO Contractors Steel Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Contractors Steel Company VB (0.1 TCR gap)

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KGS Steel, INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KGS Steel, INC averages 13.5 TCR (612% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

KGS Steel, INC TCR series: 2017=10.9 · 2019=16.1 · BLS 2.2

Where KGS Steel, INC 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 Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 44 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Alabama.

KGS Steel, INC (52 employees, TCR 13.5) 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 KGS Steel, INC
KGS Steel, INC (52 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

KGS Steel, INC has more 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
2019 16.1 6.9 7 0 0
2017 10.9 2.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · AL · Bessemer

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 116 employers in Bessemer, AL · 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 Contractors Steel Company VB 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Contractors Steel Company GR 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ideal Steel 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amarr - Orlando Hub 13.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mobile Division Hillcrest 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Birmingham Division Trussville Crew Headquarters 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jasper Complex 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patton Chapel Crew Headquarters - APC 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BHM1 4,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bessemer, DC 768 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blox LLC 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR US PIPE - BHM-DIP 559 FTE
NAT-TCR RIC-RICHMOND 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR USF Boca Raton FL 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lordstown Complex 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dla9 13.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Best Western Plus Windjammer Inn 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manchester Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loyal Termite and Pest Control Company, Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunting Energy Services, LLC Trenchless Division 52 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: 2019, 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.