Chain link fencing, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants · Ohio

Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH

Mt. Sterling, OH · ~129 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chain link fencing, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Chain link fencing, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH safety composite

Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH: 4.2 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH's TCR rose 1.7 from 4.2 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Mt. Sterling, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #7/14
  • PHOTO US Wire : Irwindale
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Wire : Irwindale (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Chain link fencing, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH TCR series: 2018=4.2 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH falls in its industry

163 Chain link fencing, iron or st establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 14 Chain link fencing, iron or st employers in Ohio.

Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH (129 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH
Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH (129 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Stephens Pipe and Steel Mount Sterling, OH has more employees than the Chain link fencing, iron or steel, made median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 5.9 2.5 4 3 0
2023 4.4 3.1 5 2 0
2022 3.1 1.2 2 3 0
2021 2.6 1.9 3 1 0
2020 2.7 2.7 4 0 0
2019 4.1 3.5 6 0 0
2018 4.2 1.4 2 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · OH · Mt. Sterling

163 Chain link fencing, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 6 employers in Mt. Sterling, 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 US Wire : Irwindale 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products MOW 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cavert Wire Company Inc 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Carolina 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Firelands Technology Ventures, LLC 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction - Columbus, OH 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structsure Scaffold Solutions LLC 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Hartz Mountain Corporation 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mt. Sterling 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR WillowWood Global LLC 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mt. Sterling Plant 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deer Creek Lodge 84 FTE
NAT-TCR Meriter Child & Adolescent 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone Koating Lititz 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Primex Plastics Design & Fabrication 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tindall Corporation - Mississippi Division 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 17601765 Lkq 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE BAE Systems Electronic Systems LEX 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pella Admin Office/Plant 129 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.