Steel mills · South Carolina

Nucor Steel-Berkeley

Huger, SC · ~1,003 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nucor Steel-Berkeley runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Nucor Steel-Berkeley: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor Steel-Berkeley safety composite

Nucor Steel-Berkeley scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

Nucor Steel-Berkeley held a steady TCR band

Nucor Steel-Berkeley's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.3 in 2021 to 0.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.3 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Huger, SC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Monaca Operations
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~1,003 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Monaca Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nucor Steel-Berkeley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nucor Steel-Berkeley averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Nucor Steel-Berkeley TCR series: 2021=0.3 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor Steel-Berkeley falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Steel mills employers in South Carolina.

Nucor Steel-Berkeley (1,003 employees, TCR 0.4) 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-Berkeley
Nucor Steel-Berkeley (1,003 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Nucor Steel-Berkeley has more employees than the Steel mills 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 0.4 0.4 5 0 0
2021 0.3 0.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · SC · Huger

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 15 employers in Huger, SC · 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 Monaca Operations 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel Berkeley 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ArcelorMittal Corporate - Research & Development 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lancaster County Government 1,009 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prisma Health Corporate-Colonial 996 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trident Medical Center 1,015 FTE
STATE-SIZE Catawba Nuclear 1,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkley 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Technologies Berkeley 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Levy Environmental Services Company - Charleston 75 FTE
NAT-TCR AC Aventura 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ambassador Services LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mobile Call Center 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Weber State University Food 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System 1,003 FTE
NAT-SIZE RTP 1,003 FTE
NAT-SIZE AdventHealth Gordon 1,003 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westside Regional Medical Center 1,003 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.