Steel merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Venture Steel Lafayette, INC

Detroit, MI · ~101 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Venture Steel Lafayette, INC runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Venture Steel Lafayette, INC: 5.1 TCR = 230% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Venture Steel Lafayette, INC safety composite

Venture Steel Lafayette, INC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Venture Steel Lafayette, INC: 3.0 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

Venture Steel Lafayette, INC's TCR rose 4.1 from 3.0 in 2023 to 7.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 230% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #36/60
  • PHOTO TW Metals - Carol St…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TW Metals - Carol Stream (0.0 TCR gap)

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Venture Steel Lafayette, INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Venture Steel Lafayette, INC averages 5.1 TCR (230% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Venture Steel Lafayette, INC TCR series: 2023=3 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Venture Steel Lafayette, INC falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 60 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Michigan.

Venture Steel Lafayette, INC (101 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Venture Steel Lafayette, INC
Venture Steel Lafayette, INC (101 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Venture Steel Lafayette, INC has more employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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
2024 7.1 3.0 5 2 0
2023 3.0 0.0 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · MI · Detroit

1,299 Steel 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 TW Metals - Carol Stream 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZM Sheet Metal - Winchester 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co. Inc. - Knoxville, TN 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Steel DFW 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midland Cogeneration Venture 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Battle Creek SC 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM & Sons, Inc. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2683_5121 101 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 IG Design Group Americas, Inc. - Byhalia, MS 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR WMJ Farms, Incorporated 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR D. L. Campbell Co. Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 5090 - Loganville 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Starpower Communications dba RCN 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Taylorville 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital - EVS 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE UFPI 380 Woodburn, OR 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: 2024, 2023. 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.