Steel merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Sugar Steel Corporation

Chicago Heights, IL · ~101 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sugar Steel Corporation runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Sugar Steel Corporation: 3.3 TCR = 151% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sugar Steel Corporation safety composite

Sugar Steel Corporation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

Sugar Steel Corporation held a steady TCR band

Sugar Steel Corporation's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.3 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=8.5 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.3 · 151% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #41/107
  • PHOTO Miami Valley Steel S…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Miami Valley Steel Service (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sugar Steel Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sugar Steel Corporation averages 3.3 TCR (151% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sugar Steel Corporation TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=8.5 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=2 · BLS 2.2

Where Sugar Steel Corporation falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 107 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Illinois.

Sugar Steel Corporation (101 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sugar Steel Corporation
Sugar Steel Corporation (101 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Sugar Steel Corporation has more employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2023 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2021 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.2 2.4 4 0 0
2018 4.7 3.9 6 0 0
2017 8.5 8.5 9 0 0
2016 2.3 2.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Chicago Heights

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, IL · 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 Miami Valley Steel Service 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryerson- Milwaukee 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aperam Sterling Heights 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chesterfield Steel 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Gas Ops 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE DGIL 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brandt Construction Co. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE MS - Mossville, IL - 1MOI2 (CATERPILLAR COE) 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Unit #2962 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #1927 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #1362 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0135 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit #2965 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2171 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #1816 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0067 101 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.