Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers · Washington

Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc

Tacoma, WA · ~74 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc runs at 799% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc: 17.6 TCR = 799% of Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc safety composite

Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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 17.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc: 17.4 → 17.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 17.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2020

Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc's TCR rose 0.4 from 17.4 in 2019 to 17.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Tacoma, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 799% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #32/32
  • PHOTO Meyer Aluminium Blan…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meyer Aluminium Blanks, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc averages 17.6 TCR (799% of the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc TCR series: 2019=17.4 · 2020=17.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc falls in its industry

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 32 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal employers in Washington.

Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc (74 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc
Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc (74 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Northwest Steel & Pipe Inc has more employees than the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2020 17.8 12.3 12 1 0
2019 17.4 13.4 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · WA · Tacoma

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, WA · 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 Meyer Aluminium Blanks, Inc. 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MW3 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vanguard Acquisitions dba Precision Steel Services 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Steel Supply Company 17.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 00630 KEYS RD OFFICE 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prospect Construction, Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apollo Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE 53-368814287-7 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR CCAN - Ashtabula 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gelson's Markets #108 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento-Antelope #036 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE FreshPoint Raleigh167 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Augustana CO Castle Peak 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feed Mill 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Septodont Louisville 74 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: 2020, 2019. 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.