Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · North Dakota

Mid America Steel, Inc

Fargo, ND · ~105 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mid America Steel, Inc runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Mid America Steel, Inc: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mid America Steel, Inc safety composite

Mid America Steel, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Mid America Steel, Inc: 6.4 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2022

Mid America Steel, Inc's TCR rose 2.2 from 6.4 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Fargo, ND ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO ASA Builders Supply …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ASA Builders Supply Co., LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mid America Steel, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mid America Steel, Inc averages 6.3 TCR (191% 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

Mid America Steel, Inc TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2020=3.9 · 2022=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Mid America Steel, Inc falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in North Dakota.

Mid America Steel, Inc (105 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Mid America Steel, Inc
Mid America Steel, Inc (105 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Mid America Steel, Inc has more employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher 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
2022 8.6 2.9 9 0 0
2020 3.9 2.9 4 0 0
2016 6.4 4.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · ND · Fargo

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 415 employers in Fargo, ND · 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 ASA Builders Supply Co., LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunset Erectors 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TrueNorth Steel 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7847_18695 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lunseth Plumbing & Heating 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3042 Cash Wise Watford City 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hugo's #9 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit #1994 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,963 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - Fargo Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Broadway Hospital-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,547 FTE
NAT-TCR HG511 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Mark's Medical Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Keyser Energy 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Springhouse Estates 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mary Health of the Sick Convalescent & Nursing Hospital, INC 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Nick Companies 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSSI - 0121 Cargill Incorporated - Schuyler 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Environmental Landscape Design 105 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: 2022, 2020, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.