Steel merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Metals USA Inc.

Rockford, IL · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metals USA Inc. runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Metals USA Inc.: 3.3 TCR = 151% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metals USA Inc. safety composite

Metals USA Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Metals USA Inc.: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2018

Metals USA Inc.'s TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Rockford, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.3 · 151% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #42/107
  • PHOTO Kripke Enterprises
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kripke Enterprises (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metals USA Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metals USA Inc. averages 3.3 TCR (151% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Metals USA Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Metals USA Inc. falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 107 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Illinois.

Metals USA Inc. (84 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Metals USA Inc.
Metals USA Inc. (84 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Metals USA Inc. has more 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
2018 4.2 1.4 3 0 0
2017 5.8 1.9 6 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Rockford

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 405 employers in Rockford, IL · 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 Kripke Enterprises 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frontier Steel 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miami Valley Steel Service 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUGAR STEEL CORPORATION 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joliet Station 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schomburg & Schomburg Construction Incorporated 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEC DE JOINT VENTURE 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premium Concrete Inc. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILRKF - ROCKFORD AIR HUB 2,634 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish American Hospital - 4800 2,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI Pharma Services Rockford 2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR SwedishAmerican Hospital 1,855 FTE
NAT-TCR Springfield 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Open Systems Healthcare - Bala 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DeWal Industries 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresenius Medical Care 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Primex Plastics 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lauderdale Plant 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pheasant Ridge Nursing & Rehab 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic National Distributing Company 14 84 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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