Steel manufacturing · Ohio

Lorain Tubular

Lorain, OH · ~252 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lorain Tubular runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Lorain Tubular: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lorain Tubular safety composite

Lorain Tubular scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Lorain Tubular: 0.8 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2018

Lorain Tubular's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.8 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Lorain, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #13/53
  • PHOTO USS Edgar Thomson Pl…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~252 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: USS Edgar Thomson Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lorain Tubular in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lorain Tubular averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lorain Tubular TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Lorain Tubular falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 53 Steel manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Lorain Tubular (252 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Lorain Tubular
Lorain Tubular (252 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Lorain Tubular has more employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a lower 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
2018 2.2 1.4 6 0 0
2017 1.5 0.4 4 0 0
2016 0.8 0.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · OH · Lorain

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lorain, 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 USS Edgar Thomson Plant 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Steel Oklahoma 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - Butler 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel of West Virginia, Inc. 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMS Construction Inc 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Roll Forming LLC 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miba Sinter USA LLC 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE BriskHeat Corporation 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Regional Medical Center 1,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain FHC Surgery 412 FTE
NAT-TCR USS Edgar Thomson Plant 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6354-FL18 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Interstate Building Materials Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tacoma Dc 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE WFs- Denver 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt Whitney Operations (Gatla) 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orchids Paper Products Pryor Converting 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kelsey-Hayes Company-Fenton 252 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.