Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Colorado

St. Thomas Steel, Inc.

Arvada, CO · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St. Thomas Steel, Inc. runs at 591% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

St. Thomas Steel, Inc.: 19.5 TCR = 591% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St. Thomas Steel, Inc. safety composite

St. Thomas Steel, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

St. Thomas Steel, Inc.: 14.1 → 24.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 24.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2017

St. Thomas Steel, Inc.'s TCR rose 10.8 from 14.1 in 2016 to 24.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Arvada, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.5 · 591% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #37/37
  • PHOTO EMPIRE BUCKET INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EMPIRE BUCKET INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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St. Thomas Steel, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows St. Thomas Steel, Inc. averages 19.5 TCR (591% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

St. Thomas Steel, Inc. TCR series: 2016=14.1 · 2017=24.9 · BLS 3.3

Where St. Thomas Steel, Inc. falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 37 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Colorado.

St. Thomas Steel, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 19.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate St. Thomas Steel, Inc.
St. Thomas Steel, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 19.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

St. Thomas Steel, Inc. has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2017 24.9 5.0 5 0 0
2016 14.1 9.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · CO · Arvada

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 129 employers in Arvada, CO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR EMPIRE BUCKET INC 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kasco Fab, Inc. 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paul's Welding Inc. 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR XTCrbn 19.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wheeler Farms, LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bully's Farms, LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montrose 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE RowCal Construction & Maintenance CO LLC 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sundyne LLC 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR WANCO, Inc. 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lumin8 Transportation Technologies, LLC. 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR LivaNova 276 FTE
NAT-TCR Carmel Village Memory Care 19.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Frattallone's Ace Hardware-Minnetonka 19.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grant Center 19.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison County Detention Home 19.5 TCR

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: 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.