Steel manufacturing · Arkansas

Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff

Pine Bluff, AR · ~124 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff safety composite

Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.93× in 2018

Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Pine Bluff, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #1/14
  • PHOTO Outokumpu Stainless …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Outokumpu Stainless Steel USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 14 Steel manufacturing employers in Arkansas.

Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff (124 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff
Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff (124 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff has fewer 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 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2017 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · AR · Pine Bluff

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 78 employers in Pine Bluff, AR · 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 Outokumpu Stainless Steel USA 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairfield Tubular Operations 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automotive Center 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metals USA Liberty 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE HOT SPRINGS 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Dorado (formerly El Dorado Packaging) 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manufacturing 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE FT SMITH AR 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pine Bluff Jeff Pkwy Plant 1,709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evergreen Packaging - Pine Bluff 1,024 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saracen Casino Resort 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3331 505 FTE
NAT-TCR Columbus, Carrolton, Obetz 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Corpus Christi North Beach Terminal 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR RBI Solar Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aviall - Dallas 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oldcastle OPI - Chandler 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheboygan (Wishe) 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenville (Scgll) 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altoona (Paalt) 124 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.