Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors · Michigan

Midwest Steel

Detroit, MI · ~369 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Steel runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Midwest Steel: 1.1 TCR = 41% of Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Steel safety composite

Midwest Steel scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Midwest Steel: 0.4 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.17× in 2024

Midwest Steel's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.4 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Detroit, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO Southern States Reba…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~369 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern States Rebar, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Steel averages 1.1 TCR (41% of the Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Steel TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.9 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Midwest Steel falls in its industry

705 Structural steel erecting or i establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 13 Structural steel erecting or i employers in Michigan.

Midwest Steel (369 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest Steel
Midwest Steel (369 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Midwest Steel has more employees than the Structural steel erecting or iron work c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 1.4 0.2 7 0 0
2023 1.2 0.4 6 0 0
2021 0.9 0.4 4 0 0
2020 0.8 0.3 3 0 0
2019 1.7 0.8 9 0 0
2018 1.6 1.1 6 0 0
2016 0.4 0.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · MI · Detroit

705 Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, MI · 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 Southern States Rebar, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Industries Corp of New York 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PNW Reinforcing 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florence Concrete Products, Inc. Field 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE ZF-Fowlerville 369 FTE
STATE-SIZE NBHX Trim USA 369 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lear Corporation - Roscommon 369 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Chain : Norton Shores, MI 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR PSI North Pole Refinery 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Evaptech 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Honeywell Intelligrated - London 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Assisted Living 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rice Lake 369 FTE
NAT-SIZE 187 - Doral 369 FTE
NAT-SIZE 117 - San Diego 369 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Englewood CO-Jamaica-B899 (5464) 369 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.