Armor plate made in iron and steel mills · Kentucky

Nucor Steel Brandenburg

Brandenburg, KY · ~263 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nucor Steel Brandenburg runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Armor plate made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Nucor Steel Brandenburg: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Armor plate made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor Steel Brandenburg safety composite

Nucor Steel Brandenburg scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−6.1

2020→2024

Nucor Steel Brandenburg injury rate improved

Nucor Steel Brandenburg's TCR fell 6.1 from 6.6 in 2020 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.6 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Brandenburg, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO ArcelorMittal Coates…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~263 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ArcelorMittal Coatesville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nucor Steel Brandenburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nucor Steel Brandenburg averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Armor plate made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Nucor Steel Brandenburg TCR series: 2020=6.6 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor Steel Brandenburg falls in its industry

416 Armor plate made in iron and s establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 14 Armor plate made in iron and s employers in Kentucky.

Nucor Steel Brandenburg (263 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Brandenburg
Nucor Steel Brandenburg (263 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Nucor Steel Brandenburg has more employees than the Armor plate made in iron and 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 0.6 0.6 3 0 0
2023 0.8 0.6 4 0 0
2022 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 3 0 0
2020 6.6 3.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · KY · Brandenburg

416 Armor plate made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 17 employers in Brandenburg, KY · 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 ArcelorMittal Coatesville 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Steel Industries 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PS Industries 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eagle Hardwoods Inc. 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisville, KY - 3900 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE ViWinTech Window & Doors, Inc. 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core-Mark Leitchfield 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monument Chemical, Brandenburg KY 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR 024-00903 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elizabethtown Location 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brandenburg Location 126 FTE
NAT-TCR SinterMet, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Howard Shockey & Sons 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR South Raleigh Operations 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bookmasters inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Utah Center 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Four Seasons Atlanta 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6447 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kohler Company 263 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. 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.