Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills · Wisconsin

Northern Metal Fab Inc.

Baldwin, WI · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Metal Fab Inc. runs at 329% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Northern Metal Fab Inc.: 10.8 TCR = 329% of Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Metal Fab Inc. safety composite

Northern Metal Fab Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−4.4

2023→2024

Northern Metal Fab Inc. injury rate improved

Northern Metal Fab Inc.'s TCR fell 4.4 from 13.0 in 2023 to 8.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=13.0 · 2024=8.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Baldwin, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 329% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO McDonald Steel Corpo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McDonald Steel Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Metal Fab Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Metal Fab Inc. averages 10.8 TCR (329% of the Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Metal Fab Inc. TCR series: 2023=13 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Northern Metal Fab Inc. falls in its industry

416 Flakes, iron or steel, made in establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Flakes, iron or steel, made in employers in Wisconsin.

Northern Metal Fab Inc. (70 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Northern Metal Fab Inc.
Northern Metal Fab Inc. (70 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Northern Metal Fab Inc. has fewer employees than the Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and median and a higher 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 8.7 4.3 6 0 0
2023 13.0 4.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · WI · Baldwin

416 Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 21 employers in Baldwin, WI · 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 McDonald Steel Corporation 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMG 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sigma Tube Company/DBA Sterling Pipe and Tube, Inc. 5335 Enterprise Blvd. Toledo, Ohio 43612 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pesznecker Brothers 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE La Crosse Service Center-9N 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friendship 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Paving- Brownsville 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE QBC, LLC 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baldwin Area Medical Center, Inc. 435 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nolato Contour 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vital Plastics, Inc. 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Automotive Building 169 FTE
NAT-TCR Learning Solutions Kids 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Antioch,CA - 503 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ann Haskins Center 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The New Tip Top Arborists, Inc 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ormond Beach 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sage Realty Corporation 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Pedro 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE PEERLESS-WINSMITH 70 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.