Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Ohio

Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop

Cleveland, OH · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop runs at 380% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop: 12.5 TCR = 380% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop safety composite

Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop: 13.1 → 24.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 24.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2021

Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop's TCR rose 11.5 from 13.1 in 2018 to 24.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Cleveland, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 380% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #79/81
  • PHOTO Meeco Sullivan - McA…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meeco Sullivan - McAlester (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop averages 12.5 TCR (380% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop TCR series: 2018=13.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=24.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 81 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Ohio.

Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop (18 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop
Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop (18 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Nova Structural Steel Fabrication Shop has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2021 24.5 4.9 5 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 13.1 6.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · OH · Cleveland

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Meeco Sullivan - McAlester 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR K and K Construction & Repair, Inc. 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BWJ Metalworks, LLC 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Utility Structures LLC 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buckeye Oil Producing Company 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holmes Supply Corp 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vixcon Co LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sapphire Steel 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR Hal Mcbride Car Sales, Inc 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 540618-Bhm-Mount Baker Sta 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 257600-Plymouth Po 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01544 12.5 TCR

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: 2021, 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.