Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills · Alabama

Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc.

Name: Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
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Birmingham, AL · ~256 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc.: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. safety composite

Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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).

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2016→2021

Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. injury rate improved

Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.7 from 1.0 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.0 · 2017=0.3 · 2019=1.0 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Birmingham, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #6/17
PHOTO SWVA Kentucky, LLC.
BOOK 5y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~256 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWVA Kentucky, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. averages 0.9 TCR (26% of the Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=0.3 · 2019=1 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. falls in its industry

416 Bars, steel, made in iron and establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 17 Bars, steel, made in iron and employers in Alabama.

Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. (256 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. has more employees than the Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mill 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
2021	0.3	0.0	1
2020	1.6	0.0	5
2019	1.0	0.3	3
2017	0.3	0.0	1
2016	1.0	0.3	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · AL · Birmingham

416 Bars, steel, made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	SWVA Kentucky, LLC.	ASHLAND, KY	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Vulcraft of New York	CHEMUNG, NY	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mid-America Manufacturing Inc.	NEVADA, IA	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CMC Steel Arizona 2	MESA, AZ	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bright Future Electric - Birmingham	BIRMINGHAM	256 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2428 Eutaw Folding	EUTAW	256 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Scottsboro	SCOTTSBORO	256 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hager Companies - Montgomery Plant	MONTGOMERY	256 FTE
CITY-NEAR	USD	Birmingham	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CLASSIC FOODS	Birmingham	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate	Birmingham	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BIRMINGHAM PACKERS	Birmingham	8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR	War Memorial Hospital Community Medical Center	Sault Ste Marie, MI	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Boxes, Inc. - Bridgeton	Bridgeton, MO	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sheboygan Paint Company - GA	Cedartown, GA	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	World Oil Refining	South Gate, CA	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Meijer #52	East Lansing, MI	256 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fluke Electronics- Evergreen Way	Everett, WA	256 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Foster Care	Taylor, MI	256 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Johnson and Johnson Consumer Lancaster	Lancaster, PA	256 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.