Mini-mills, steel · Iowa

SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America)

Muscatine, IA · ~466 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Mini-mills, steel workplace, earning a grade A.

SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America): 1.3 TCR = 40% of Mini-mills, steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) safety composite

SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2021→2022

SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) injury rate improved

SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America)'s TCR fell 0.6 from 1.6 in 2021 to 1.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.6 · 2022=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Coshocton Works
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~466 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coshocton Works (0.0 TCR gap)

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SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Mini-mills, steel BLS benchmark).

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

SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) TCR series: 2021=1.6 · 2022=1 · BLS 3.3

Where SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) falls in its industry

416 Mini-mills, steel establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #2 safest of 10 Mini-mills, steel employers in Iowa.

SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) (466 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 (SSAB North America)
SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) (466 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) has more employees than the Mini-mills, steel median and a lower 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
2022 1.0 0.2 2 3 0
2021 1.6 1.6 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IA · Muscatine

416 Mini-mills, steel 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 Coshocton Works 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCP-Fontana 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NLMK Pennsylvania 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dee Zee Broadway 465 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ames Main 465 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muscatine, IA 464 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waverly Health Center 468 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highway 61 982 FTE
CITY-NEAR HON Company Administration 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSAB Iowa Inc. 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR GPC - Muscatine 453 FTE
NAT-TCR BWAY Corporation - LaGrange Plant 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Isaac Holdings, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountain Area Health Education Center, Inc. / Ridgefield Office 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR KASAI NORTH AMERICA - Prattville 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital 466 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8807766-Sams DFW3/6845 466 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mental Health Resource Center 466 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technimark LLC - Plant 5 466 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.