Steel manufacturing · New York

Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc

Auburn, NY · ~272 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc safety composite

Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc: 1.3 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.3 in 2017 to 2.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Auburn, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Big River Steel LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~272 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big River Steel LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc TCR series: 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.4 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Steel manufacturing employers in New York.

Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc (272 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc
Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc (272 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc has more employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a lower 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 2.3 1.7 7 0 0
2023 2.1 1.8 6 0 0
2022 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 4 0 0
2020 1.0 0.7 3 0 0
2019 0.6 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.6 0.6 5 0 0
2017 1.3 0.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · NY · Auburn

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 92 employers in Auburn, NY · 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 Big River Steel LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Star BlueScope Steel, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHAPARRAL (VIRGINIA) INC. DBA Gerdau 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1 Davis Ave - HQ 272 FTE
STATE-SIZE TC Transcontinental UltraFlex 272 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gray Metal Products, Inc. 272 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Pumps 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR Auburn Community Hospital 725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Commons St Anthony 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Auburn 038 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1830 331 FTE
NAT-TCR Kele, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 9 - Rochester 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Airmark Components, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alliance Sheets, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Myers Park Country Club Inc 272 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infineum USA INC 272 FTE
NAT-SIZE 166 Gre1000 272 FTE
NAT-SIZE Protolabs - Rosemount 272 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.