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

Plant 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel

Caldwell, ID · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plant 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel runs at 298% 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 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel: 9.8 TCR = 298% of Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plant 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel safety composite

Plant 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel: 2.9 → 16.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2022

Plant 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel's TCR rose 13.9 from 2.9 in 2021 to 16.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.46× 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 9.8 · 298% of ind

  • DART 14.4 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Rule Steel Plant 7
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rule Steel Plant 7 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Plant 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plant 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel averages 9.8 TCR (298% 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 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel TCR series: 2021=2.9 · 2022=16.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Plant 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel falls in its industry

175 Containers, light gauge metal establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #4 safest of 6 Containers, light gauge metal employers in Idaho.

Plant 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel (35 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel
Plant 3 & Shipping, Rule Steel (35 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Plant 3 & Shipping, 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 16.8 14.4 6 1 0
2021 2.9 2.9 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 Rule Steel Plant 7 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wastequip New Lebanon 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wastequip Erial 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Plant 2 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seneca Foods-Nampa 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROOST POTATO COMPANY INC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite Excavation, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gale Lim Construction LLC 35 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 JC Plant 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gelson's Markets #25 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Specs #162 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0017-0016-00341 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Laminated Materials Corporation 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Dixie Truck & Trailer Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zigg Design 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cadman Seattle RMC 35 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. 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.