Steel merchant wholesalers · Ohio

LHS

Columbus, OH · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LHS runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

LHS: 3.6 TCR = 162% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LHS safety composite

LHS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.1

2023→2024

LHS injury rate improved

LHS's TCR fell 7.1 from 7.1 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 162% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #71/130
  • PHOTO Eastern Metal Supply…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eastern Metal Supply Missouri (0.0 TCR gap)

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LHS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LHS averages 3.6 TCR (162% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

LHS TCR series: 2023=7.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where LHS falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 130 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Ohio.

LHS (25 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 LHS
LHS (25 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

LHS has fewer employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 7.1 7.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · OH · Columbus

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Eastern Metal Supply Missouri 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metals USA 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tubular Steel Katy 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Copper and Brass Sales - Bolingbrook 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rittman Orchards 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Convoy Dairy LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalmbach Swine Management 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nature Pure Farm 2 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Waterline Technologies Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottage Hospital 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Agri Supply of Petersburg 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 778 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hotel Z 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Air Specialties 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wylde Ibis, LLC dba Artcraft Sign Company 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE McKeever, Inc. 25 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. 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.