Wire, flat, rolled strip, made in cold rolling mills · Illinois

Nelsen Steel Company

Franklin Park, IL · ~84 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelsen Steel Company runs at 358% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Wire, flat, rolled strip, made in cold rolling mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Nelsen Steel Company: 11.8 TCR = 358% of Wire, flat, rolled strip, made in cold rolling mills BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelsen Steel Company safety composite

Nelsen Steel Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Nelsen Steel Company: 10.8 → 15.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 17.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

Nelsen Steel Company's TCR rose 4.5 from 10.8 in 2016 to 15.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 17.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331221 · Franklin Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.8 · 358% of ind

  • DART 15.3 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Midwest Roll Forming…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Roll Forming & Mfg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelsen Steel Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelsen Steel Company averages 11.8 TCR (358% of the Wire, flat, rolled strip, made in cold rolling mills BLS benchmark).

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

Nelsen Steel Company TCR series: 2016=10.8 · 2017=7.9 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=17.7 · 2021=13.9 · 2022=12.6 · 2024=15.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Nelsen Steel Company falls in its industry

206 Wire, flat, rolled strip, made establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Wire, flat, rolled strip, made employers in Illinois.

Nelsen Steel Company (84 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelsen Steel Company
Nelsen Steel Company (84 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Nelsen Steel Company has more employees than the Wire, flat, rolled strip, made in cold r median and a higher 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 15.3 15.3 13 0 0
2022 12.6 10.3 11 0 0
2021 13.9 13.9 9 0 0
2020 17.7 14.2 15 0 0
2019 8.9 6.7 8 0 0
2018 7.4 6.3 6 1 0
2017 7.9 4.0 4 4 0
2016 10.8 10.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331221 · IL · Franklin Park

206 Wire, flat, rolled strip, made in cold rolling mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 127 employers in Franklin Park, 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 Midwest Roll Forming & Mfg 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roller Die-Louisville 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bellis Steel Company Inc 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arcos Industries LLC 11.6 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 ILFRA - FRANKLIN PARK HUB 799 FTE
CITY-NEAR FRANKLIN PARK HUB (ILFRA) 740 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sloan Franklin Park 709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hill Mechanical Corp 703 FTE
NAT-TCR Goebel Fixture Company 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wagner Electric Company LLC 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eliason Industries, aka Senneca Holdings 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tim N. Jones Concrete & Masonry, Inc. 11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fountain People, Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reading, Pa 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gardens of Scottsdale 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Times Supermarket - Waimalu 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: 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.