Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing · Georgia

Steel Plate - Atlanta

Pendergrass, GA · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Steel Plate - Atlanta runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Steel Plate - Atlanta: 4.4 TCR = 134% of Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Steel Plate - Atlanta safety composite

Steel Plate - Atlanta scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Steel Plate - Atlanta: 2.5 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2019

Steel Plate - Atlanta's TCR rose 3.7 from 2.5 in 2018 to 6.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Pendergrass, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Pegasus Steel - Ladson
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pegasus Steel - Ladson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steel Plate - Atlanta in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Steel Plate - Atlanta averages 4.4 TCR (134% of the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Steel Plate - Atlanta TCR series: 2018=2.5 · 2019=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Steel Plate - Atlanta falls in its industry

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut employers in Georgia.

Steel Plate - Atlanta (41 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 Steel Plate - Atlanta
Steel Plate - Atlanta (41 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Steel Plate - Atlanta has fewer employees than the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2019 6.3 4.2 3 0 0
2018 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · GA · Pendergrass

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 37 employers in Pendergrass, GA · 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 Pegasus Steel - Ladson 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid Island Steel Corp 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Custom Fabrication, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams Fabrication DBA Jenfab 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Classic Groundcovers, Inc 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Shady Dale, GA 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sol America Energy 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ocmulgee Electric Membership Corporation 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bed Bath and Beyond Pendergrass Facility 1,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pendergrass processing plant 1,054 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - PGA1 940 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pendergrass Plant 847 FTE
NAT-TCR Penn Engineering, Winston-Salem Division 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-State Special Education 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Charles Jacquin et Cie, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR OMNI Hotels-Los Angeles 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Specialty Composites Group, Ltd. dba Waco Composites 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patrick Motors Auburn 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Victoria's Secret Processing Center - New Jersey 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Lumber Corrigan 41 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.