Steel manufacturing · Indiana

USS Gary Works - Plant

Gary, IN · ~4,744 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

USS Gary Works - Plant runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

USS Gary Works - Plant: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

USS Gary Works - Plant safety composite

USS Gary Works - Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 1% 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%).

USS Gary Works - Plant held a steady TCR band

USS Gary Works - Plant's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.3 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.3 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Gary, IN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #12/42
  • PHOTO CMC Steel South Caro…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 163 inj
  • SIZE ~4,744 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CMC Steel South Carolina (0.0 TCR gap)

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USS Gary Works - Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows USS Gary Works - Plant averages 1.2 TCR (35% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

USS Gary Works - Plant TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where USS Gary Works - Plant falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 42 Steel manufacturing employers in Indiana.

USS Gary Works - Plant (4,744 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate USS Gary Works - Plant
USS Gary Works - Plant (4,744 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

USS Gary Works - Plant has more employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2018 1.2 1.0 54 4 0
2017 1.1 0.7 52 2 0
2016 1.3 0.8 57 6 2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IN · Gary

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 107 employers in Gary, IN · 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 CMC Steel South Carolina 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleveland-Cliffs Butler Works 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - Columbus 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE FedEx 6648 S PERIMETER ROAD 4,726 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eli Lilly - Lilly Technology Center 4,918 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roche Diagnostics Operations 4,924 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gary Works 3,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRNI Holdings, LLC 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DIN2 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR CROWN CORR INC 502 FTE
NAT-TCR Exit 34A LLC dba Clarion Inn Gulfport 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CNH_New_Holland_Tech_Center 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Supply Chain : Fort Worth, TXD 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Virgil Drive 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Henrico County General Government 4,746 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philadelphia Youth Network 4,742 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baylor University Medical Center 4,741 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apollo Retail Specialists, LLC 4,736 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: 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.