Steel mills · Indiana

Midwest Plant

Portage, IN · ~889 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Plant runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Midwest Plant: 1.0 TCR = 30% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Plant safety composite

Midwest Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2016→2024

Midwest Plant injury rate improved

Midwest Plant's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.4 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=0.8 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Portage, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #10/42
  • PHOTO Nucor Steel Marion, …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~889 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nucor Steel Marion, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Plant averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Plant TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=0.8 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Midwest Plant falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 42 Steel mills employers in Indiana.

Midwest Plant (889 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Midwest Plant
Midwest Plant (889 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Midwest Plant has more employees than the Steel mills 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
2024 0.4 0.2 4 0 0
2023 0.7 0.3 6 0 0
2018 0.8 0.6 7 1 0
2017 1.7 1.0 16 0 0
2016 1.4 1.0 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IN · Portage

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 87 employers in Portage, IN · 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 Nucor Steel Marion, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Global Burns Harbor 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleveland-Cliffs Conshohocken 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel Sedalia, LLC 2023 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE IN - Apple 891 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hancock Health Buildings 891 FTE
STATE-SIZE TOA, USA 886 FTE
STATE-SIZE 16TH STREET (INI16) 892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Solid Platforms, Inc. 746 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2544 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2544 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Construction - MW 370 FTE
NAT-TCR Trulieve Orange Park 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith Systems, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kilian Manufacturing Corporation 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Independence Excavating 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oakland Management Corp. 889 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - BWI4 889 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant 889 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley View Casino & Hotel 889 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, 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.