Rods, metal (except precious), merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Olympic Steel Inc.

Mount Sterling, KY · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Olympic Steel Inc. runs at 311% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rods, metal (except precious), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Olympic Steel Inc.: 6.8 TCR = 311% of Rods, metal (except precious), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Olympic Steel Inc. safety composite

Olympic Steel Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Olympic Steel Inc.: 4.4 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.17× in 2024

Olympic Steel Inc.'s TCR rose 5.0 from 4.4 in 2022 to 9.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Mount Sterling, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 311% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO OS2
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OS2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Olympic Steel Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Olympic Steel Inc. averages 6.8 TCR (311% of the Rods, metal (except precious), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Olympic Steel Inc. TCR series: 2022=4.4 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Olympic Steel Inc. falls in its industry

1,299 Rods, metal (except precious), establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Rods, metal (except precious), employers in Kentucky.

Olympic Steel Inc. (70 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Olympic Steel Inc.
Olympic Steel Inc. (70 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Olympic Steel Inc. has more employees than the Rods, metal (except precious), merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 9.3 1.2 6 2 0
2022 4.4 4.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · KY · Mount Sterling

1,299 Rods, metal (except precious), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 25 employers in Mount Sterling, 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 OS2 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Technologies Berkeley 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benjamin Steel Co-Mansfield 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JMS Russel Metals Corp - LPC 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Pipeline Construction Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bristol Group 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE A & S Installation Services LLC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rizzo Brothers Painting Contractors, Inc 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cabinetworks Group - Mount Sterling 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Standard Automotive 460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Standard 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1140 355 FTE
NAT-TCR Council Bluffs Ia - 3082 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Normal Il - 3072 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Peters Mo - 3305 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Arrow Missouri LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mexico Oilseeds 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 3 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Okmulgee Indian Clinic 70 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, 2022. 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.