Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing · Idaho

Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel

Caldwell, ID · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel runs at 350% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel: 11.6 TCR = 350% of Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel safety composite

Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel: 3.7 → 16.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2022

Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel's TCR rose 13.2 from 3.7 in 2020 to 16.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Caldwell, ID ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 350% of ind

  • DART 16.9 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Custom Metalcraft (P…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Custom Metalcraft (Plant 2) (0.2 TCR gap)

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Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel averages 11.6 TCR (350% of the Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel TCR series: 2020=3.7 · 2021=14 · 2022=16.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel falls in its industry

175 Containers, light gauge metal establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Idaho alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Containers, light gauge metal employers in Idaho.

Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel (20 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel
Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel (20 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Plant 2 & 4, Rule Steel has fewer employees than the Containers, light gauge metal (except ca median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2022 16.9 16.9 5 0 0
2021 14.0 7.0 2 2 0
2020 3.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · ID · Caldwell

175 Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho with headcount on file · 118 employers in Caldwell, ID · 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 Custom Metalcraft (Plant 2) 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amber Waves Inc 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Desapro, Inc. 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Holbrook 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Foundation Seeds Inc. - Nampa 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Forest, Inc 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hop Field 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Valley Medical Center 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR FG Idaho Plant - Caldwell 519 FTE
CITY-NEAR JR Simplot - Food - Idaho Plant 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2780 439 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Fort Myers The Colony 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 123 - Lake County 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutphen Urbana Pumper 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kirby Foods IGA Plus 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tri State Trailer Sales Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cadman- Port of Portland 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Double S Dirt Works, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Athens, 63 20 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: 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.