Steel merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc.

Bettendorf, IA · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc.: 2.5 TCR = 114% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. safety composite

Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.18 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2022→2024

Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. injury rate improved

Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.0 from 2.2 in 2022 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.2 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Bettendorf, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 114% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #6/18
  • PHOTO Steel Technologies M…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steel Technologies Mishawaka (0.0 TCR gap)

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Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. averages 2.5 TCR (114% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. TCR series: 2022=2.2 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 18 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Iowa.

Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. (84 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Iowa, Inc.
Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. (84 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Olympic Steel Iowa, Inc. has more employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2023 4.1 2.1 3 1 0
2022 2.2 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IA · Bettendorf

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 89 employers in Bettendorf, IA · 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 Steel Technologies Mishawaka 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DODSON GLOBAL - 401 DG STONE MOUNTAIN 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Metals Company Location #68 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Performance Metals - Cin1 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stueve Construction LLC (All Locations) 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.W. Koehler Electric, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE IP Waterloo NAC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE ProPulse A Schieffer Co 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davenport 00202 2,412 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETTENDORF (410) 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bettendorf - Main Store 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR Isle Casino Hotel Bettendorf 333 FTE
NAT-TCR Current Lighting 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HC Sparks 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fragrance Manufacturer 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rountree-Moore Chevrolet 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE UM - El Cajon 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Videojet Technologies Elk Grove 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honda of Sarasota 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Cross Construction 84 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. 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.