Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · Montana

TrueNorth Steel-Billings

Billings, MT · ~103 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TrueNorth Steel-Billings runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

TrueNorth Steel-Billings: 7.3 TCR = 221% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TrueNorth Steel-Billings safety composite

TrueNorth Steel-Billings scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

TrueNorth Steel-Billings: 6.2 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2021

TrueNorth Steel-Billings's TCR rose 3.9 from 6.2 in 2016 to 10.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Billings, MT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 221% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Cody Builders Supply…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cody Builders Supply Steel Group L.L.C. (0.0 TCR gap)

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TrueNorth Steel-Billings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TrueNorth Steel-Billings averages 7.3 TCR (221% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

TrueNorth Steel-Billings TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=10.3 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=5.3 · 2021=10.2 · BLS 3.3

Where TrueNorth Steel-Billings falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in Montana.

TrueNorth Steel-Billings (103 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate TrueNorth Steel-Billings
TrueNorth Steel-Billings (103 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

TrueNorth Steel-Billings has more employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur 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
2021 10.2 4.2 11 1 0
2019 5.3 1.8 6 0 0
2018 4.4 3.5 5 0 0
2017 10.3 5.2 10 0 0
2016 6.2 3.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · MT · Billings

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 327 employers in Billings, MT · 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 Cody Builders Supply Steel Group L.L.C. 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Products 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TYLER STEEL COMPANY 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dave Steel Company 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Franz Bakery 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precious Metals Smelter 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3101 BILLINGS 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super 1 Foods Evergreen 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billings Clinic Hospital 2,366 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Vincent Healthcare 1,860 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billings Clinic Downtown Campus 1,223 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Lutheran Ministries 651 FTE
NAT-TCR Denton Distribution Center 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Oaks Health Center 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bedrock Concrete LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE JMS 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE GRA 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE ALB 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terrible's Roadhouse Casino - Pahrump, NV 103 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.