Metal Wholesale and Fabrication · California

Phillips Steel Company

Long Beach, CA · ~51 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Phillips Steel Company runs at 510% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal Wholesale and Fabrication workplace, earning a grade F.

Phillips Steel Company: 11.2 TCR = 510% of Metal Wholesale and Fabrication BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Phillips Steel Company safety composite

Phillips Steel Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Phillips Steel Company: 1.7 → 15.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 22.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Phillips Steel Company's TCR rose 13.9 from 1.7 in 2017 to 15.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 22.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Long Beach, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 510% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #87/91
  • PHOTO Upstate Steel Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Upstate Steel Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Phillips Steel Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Phillips Steel Company averages 11.2 TCR (510% of the Metal Wholesale and Fabrication BLS benchmark).

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

Phillips Steel Company TCR series: 2017=1.7 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=22.6 · 2021=12 · 2022=6.3 · 2024=15.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Phillips Steel Company falls in its industry

1,299 Metal Wholesale and Fabricatio establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #87 safest of 91 Metal Wholesale and Fabricatio employers in California.

Phillips Steel Company (51 employees, TCR 11.2) 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 Phillips Steel Company
Phillips Steel Company (51 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Phillips Steel Company has more employees than the Metal Wholesale and Fabrication 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 15.6 7.8 5 1 0
2022 6.3 0.0 2 0 0
2021 12.0 7.2 5 0 0
2019 22.6 7.5 15 0 0
2018 9.1 5.2 7 0 0
2017 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · CA · Long Beach

1,299 Metal Wholesale and Fabrication employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 614 employers in Long Beach, CA · 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 Upstate Steel Inc. 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR C.R. Laurence Co., Inc - SC05 Atlanta 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Russel Metals Williams Bahcall Green Bay WI 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benner Metals 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert Young Vineyards 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&W Vineyards 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huber Farms Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Brothers Farms Inc 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorialcare Long Beach Medical Center 3,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR LBM00 LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MED CENTER 3,552 FTE
CITY-NEAR Total Terminals International, LLC. 2,683 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 300 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR Boca West Country Club 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid Maine CPL LLC 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kyhar - Harlan 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Curley's Machine Works, Inc 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rathbone Precision Metals, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lionberger Construction 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerrity's Supermarkets, Corporate Offices 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE C & E Excavating, Inc. 51 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.