Steel mill construction · Oregon

Northwest Pipe Co.

Portland, OR · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Pipe Co. runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel mill construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Northwest Pipe Co.: 4.1 TCR = 140% of Steel mill construction BLS 2.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Pipe Co. safety composite

Northwest Pipe Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2022→2024

Northwest Pipe Co. injury rate improved

Northwest Pipe Co.'s TCR fell 0.6 from 4.7 in 2022 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.7 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 140% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO Michael Foods
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Michael Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwest Pipe Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Pipe Co. averages 4.1 TCR (140% of the Steel mill construction BLS benchmark).

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

Northwest Pipe Co. TCR series: 2022=4.7 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 2.9

Where Northwest Pipe Co. falls in its industry

924 Steel mill construction establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Steel mill construction employers in Oregon.

Northwest Pipe Co. (72 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwest Pipe Co.
Northwest Pipe Co. (72 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Northwest Pipe Co. has more employees than the Steel mill construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 4.1 2.7 3 0 0
2023 3.4 1.1 3 0 0
2022 4.7 4.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · OR · Portland

924 Steel mill construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Michael Foods 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CR Meyer - Chester 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yoe Construction, Inc 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corden Pharma Colorado 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Region 1 - Lawnfield 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Roofing, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Gluten Free Baking Company 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE GloryBee - Distribution Center 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Madrid 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wagner Electric Sign Company 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Care One at Newton 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Standard Transportation Services Inc 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Custom Chemical Formulators 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Costa Contracting, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engineered Services Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Ely Lodge 72 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, 2022. 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.