Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Colorado

Midwest Fabrication and Steel

Pueblo, CO · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Fabrication and Steel runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Midwest Fabrication and Steel: 5.4 TCR = 164% of Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Fabrication and Steel safety composite

Midwest Fabrication and Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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)
D 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Midwest Fabrication and Steel: 4.7 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2017

Midwest Fabrication and Steel's TCR rose 1.4 from 4.7 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Pueblo, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO LHL Construction Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LHL Construction Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest Fabrication and Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Fabrication and Steel averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Fabrication and Steel TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Midwest Fabrication and Steel falls in its industry

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Buildings, prefabricated metal employers in Colorado.

Midwest Fabrication and Steel (30 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest Fabrication and Steel
Midwest Fabrication and Steel (30 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Midwest Fabrication and Steel has fewer employees than the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2017 6.1 3.1 2 0 0
2016 4.7 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · CO · Pueblo

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 209 employers in Pueblo, CO · 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 LHL Construction Inc 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central States Manufacturing - Jasper 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR County Line Machine and Fab 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor & Sons Pipe & Steel, Inc 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5280 S Services LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE KP Squared LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Service Center 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Krueger Construction Management LLC 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Medical Center 2,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Health System 2,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center 1,451 FTE
CITY-NEAR EVRAZ Pueblo 1,128 FTE
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100533 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - Oak Mountain Amphitheater 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Owensboro (Kyowe) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Idaho Falls (Idifa) 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rai Mx Dca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0011 - Stockton, Ca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0006 - Hesperia, Ca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0005 - Bakersfield, CA 30 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: 2017, 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.