Steel merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp.

East Sparta, OH · ~44 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp.: 3.5 TCR = 160% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. safety composite

Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−5.2

2016→2023

Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. injury rate improved

Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp.'s TCR fell 5.2 from 5.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=5.6 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · East Sparta, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 160% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #70/130
  • PHOTO Reliance Metalcenter
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reliance Metalcenter (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. averages 3.5 TCR (160% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=5.6 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 130 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Ohio.

Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. (44 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp.
Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. (44 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Sparta Steel & Equipment Corp. has fewer 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2020 9.2 9.2 4 0 0
2018 5.6 2.8 2 0 0
2017 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.2 5.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · OH · East Sparta

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 3 employers in East Sparta, OH · 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 Reliance Metalcenter 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schupan Aluminum & Plastics Sales Kalamazoo 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 013 Grand Prairie, TX 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ENERGY METALS - 501 PEARLAND 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.T.S.S. Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Day Farms - Croton 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Licking Rural Electricfication 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus SE Service Center 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanley Miller Construction Co Main 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malavite Excavating, Inc. 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Iron River Family Foods 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR B.C Lawson Drayage, Inc 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR OREMC Nahunta 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottonwood County Developmental Achievement Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ATI Performance Products 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Corrugators 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silgan Containers Allentown 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inland Envelope Company 44 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.