Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Strong Steel Products, LLC

Detroit, MI · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Strong Steel Products, LLC runs at 451% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Strong Steel Products, LLC: 9.9 TCR = 451% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Strong Steel Products, LLC safety composite

Strong Steel Products, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Strong Steel Products, LLC: 3.1 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 20.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2022

Strong Steel Products, LLC's TCR rose 3.0 from 3.1 in 2017 to 6.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 20.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 451% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #54/62
  • PHOTO Northstar Pulp & Pap…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northstar Pulp & Paper Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Strong Steel Products, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Strong Steel Products, LLC averages 9.9 TCR (451% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Strong Steel Products, LLC TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2021=20.6 · 2022=6.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Strong Steel Products, LLC falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 62 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Michigan.

Strong Steel Products, LLC (29 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Strong Steel Products, LLC
Strong Steel Products, LLC (29 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Strong Steel Products, LLC has fewer employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 6.1 3.0 2 0 0
2021 20.6 10.3 5 1 0
2017 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · MI · Detroit

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, MI · 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 Northstar Pulp & Paper Co Inc 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NM Niagara Falls 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMM Group Coatesville 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Source, LLC (GHR03) 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (IN) 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Packing Co. Hart 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riveridge Cider 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Covert Generating Company 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR Berlin Nursing Center 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 217953-Shv-Lynbrook Sta 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 216292-Morgan City Po 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 180846-Bettendorf Po 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Signature Flight Support-BFI320 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE KON/KOA Airport 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deroose Plants 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Business Health Services 29 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.