Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroallow Manufacturing · Iowa

SSAB Iowa Inc.

Muscatine, IA · ~469 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SSAB Iowa Inc. runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroallow Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

SSAB Iowa Inc.: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroallow Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SSAB Iowa Inc. safety composite

SSAB Iowa Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

SSAB Iowa Inc.: 2.9 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2024

SSAB Iowa Inc.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 2.9 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Muscatine, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Dunkirk Specialty St…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~469 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dunkirk Specialty Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

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SSAB Iowa Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SSAB Iowa Inc. averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroallow Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SSAB Iowa Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=2.9 · 2019=2.5 · 2023=3 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where SSAB Iowa Inc. falls in its industry

416 Iron and Steel Mills and Ferro establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Iron and Steel Mills and Ferro employers in Iowa.

SSAB Iowa Inc. (469 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SSAB Iowa Inc.
SSAB Iowa Inc. (469 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

SSAB Iowa Inc. has more employees than the Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroallow Manu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 4.4 2.3 14 9 0
2023 3.0 0.6 5 10 0
2019 2.5 1.2 7 6 0
2017 2.9 1.3 10 5 0
2016 2.9 0.8 6 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IA · Muscatine

416 Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroallow Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 79 employers in Muscatine, IA · 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 Dunkirk Specialty Steel 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Ventures, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOBIS 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cardinal IG -Greenfield IG 469 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukee - Main Store 469 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waverly Health Center 468 FTE
STATE-SIZE SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highway 61 982 FTE
CITY-NEAR HON Company Administration 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muscatine, IA 464 FTE
CITY-NEAR GPC - Muscatine 453 FTE
NAT-TCR Desert View Power 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR QubicaAMF Worldwide LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ronyak Bros Paving , Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DaikyoNishikawa USA Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nord Gear Corp 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Health Allen 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Construction Company, LLC 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE StarPak LLC 469 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, 2023, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.