Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Mississippi

Quality Steel Corporation

Cleveland, MS · ~116 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quality Steel Corporation runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Quality Steel Corporation: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quality Steel Corporation safety composite

Quality Steel Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Quality Steel Corporation held a steady TCR band

Quality Steel Corporation's TCR held near 0.3 from 6.0 in 2017 to 5.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.0 · 2018=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Cleveland, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Kennedy Tank & Mfg. …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quality Steel Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quality Steel Corporation averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Quality Steel Corporation TCR series: 2017=6 · 2018=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Quality Steel Corporation falls in its industry

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal employers in Mississippi.

Quality Steel Corporation (116 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Quality Steel Corporation
Quality Steel Corporation (116 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Quality Steel Corporation has more employees than the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2018 5.7 3.5 8 0 0
2017 6.0 5.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · MS · Cleveland

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 30 employers in Cleveland, MS · 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 Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Fabricators and Erectors 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dragon Products Springer 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eaton Sales and Service 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fountain Construction Company 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pallet Management Services 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terex - Southaven 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yak Mat, LLC 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland, MS 589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baxter Healthcare Cleveland MS 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bolivar Medical Center 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR S0305 BOLIVAR MEDICAL CENTER 380 FTE
NAT-TCR Penske : 5094-00 Wilcox Farms/Roy, WA 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cinfinity Ksc (Flksc0) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Atlanta Medical Center South 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgerton T & M 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Penske : 5315-00 Mercedes-DCM/Vance, AL 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baltimore Container 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant One 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Towers on Park Lane 116 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: 2018, 2017. 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.