Plate, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills · Alabama

Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc.

Tuscaloosa, AL · ~477 workers · 4 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 Tuscaloosa, Inc. runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Plate, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc.: 0.4 TCR = 13% of Plate, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc. safety composite

Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc. 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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 Tuscaloosa, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.4 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 0.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.4 · 2020=0.8 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 13% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #1/17
  • PHOTO Monaca Operations
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~477 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Monaca Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc. averages 0.4 TCR (13% of the Plate, iron or steel, 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 Tuscaloosa, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2020=0.8 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc. falls in its industry

416 Plate, iron or steel, made in establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 17 Plate, iron or steel, made in employers in Alabama.

Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc. (477 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 Tuscaloosa, Inc.
Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc. (477 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 Tuscaloosa, Inc. has more employees than the Plate, iron or steel, made in iron and s 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 0.2 2 0 0
2023 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2020 0.8 0.2 4 0 0
2016 0.4 0.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · AL · Tuscaloosa

416 Plate, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 151 employers in Tuscaloosa, AL · 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 Louisiana 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel Berkeley 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE UAB Callahan Eye Hospital 477 FTE
STATE-SIZE JACKSON, AL 478 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanders Lead Company, Inc. 478 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glovis America- VPC MA 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phifer Kauloosa 1,419 FTE
CITY-NEAR BFG3 Tuscaloosa Facility 1,340 FTE
CITY-NEAR McAbee Construction Inc 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tuscaloosa Processing 526 FTE
NAT-TCR Aspen Contracting, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Honeybear Marketing LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR L.K. Jordan & Associates - San Antonio 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Epsilon, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Thomas More Hospital 477 FTE
NAT-SIZE European American Association 477 FTE
NAT-SIZE Future Fuel Chemical Company 477 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pleasant Valley Hospital 477 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, 2020, 2016. 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.