Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel · Ohio

Niles Zekelman Industries

Niles, OH · ~60 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Niles Zekelman Industries runs at 356% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Niles Zekelman Industries: 11.7 TCR = 356% of Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Niles Zekelman Industries safety composite

Niles Zekelman Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Niles Zekelman Industries: 7.9 → 15.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

Niles Zekelman Industries's TCR rose 7.6 from 7.9 in 2023 to 15.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331210 · Niles, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 356% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #29/34
  • PHOTO Arntzen Corporation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arntzen Corporation (0.1 TCR gap)

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Niles Zekelman Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Niles Zekelman Industries averages 11.7 TCR (356% of the Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Niles Zekelman Industries TCR series: 2023=7.9 · 2024=15.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Niles Zekelman Industries falls in its industry

329 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, loc establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 34 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, loc employers in Ohio.

Niles Zekelman Industries (60 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Niles Zekelman Industries
Niles Zekelman Industries (60 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Niles Zekelman Industries has fewer employees than the Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, s median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 15.6 10.9 10 0 0
2023 7.9 4.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331210 · OH · Niles

329 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 54 employers in Niles, OH · 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 Arntzen Corporation 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR USPTM 201 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanna Pekin 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centric Pipe - Bossier City 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE White House Fruit Farm Inc 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wholesale 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity West 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gutknecht Construction Company 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Niles, OH 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alorica Business Solutions LLC- Niles 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet Aerospace - Niles Operations 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet Aerospace - Niles Operastions 435 FTE
NAT-TCR PIAD Precision Casting 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lone Tree Retirement Center 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mission Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Double Aught Lumber 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakeview Nursing and Rehab 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dymax Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpha Leominster 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Temperature Systems Inc 60 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.