Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade · West Virginia

Wheeling-Nippon Steel

Follansbee, WV · ~185 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wheeling-Nippon Steel runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade C.

Wheeling-Nippon Steel: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wheeling-Nippon Steel safety composite

Wheeling-Nippon Steel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Wheeling-Nippon Steel: 2.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Wheeling-Nippon Steel's TCR rose 1.0 from 2.0 in 2021 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Follansbee, WV AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Metal Coatings Corpo…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metal Coatings Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wheeling-Nippon Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wheeling-Nippon Steel averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Wheeling-Nippon Steel TCR series: 2021=2 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Wheeling-Nippon Steel falls in its industry

646 Aluminum coating of metal prod establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Aluminum coating of metal prod employers in West Virginia.

Wheeling-Nippon Steel (185 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Wheeling-Nippon Steel
Wheeling-Nippon Steel (185 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Wheeling-Nippon Steel has more employees than the Aluminum coating of metal products for t median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 3.0 0.0 6 0 0
2023 2.5 0.5 5 0 0
2022 3.5 2.0 7 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · WV · Follansbee

646 Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 10 employers in Follansbee, WV · 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 Metal Coatings Corporation 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shelby - CR 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Coaters of Mississippi 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR E/M Coating Services 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Preston Contractors 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wheeling-Nisshin 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE 398 Charleston, WV (CORP) 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mapleshire 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain State Carbon LLC 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 339 BRIGHTWOOD CENTER-WV 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9288-339 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Empire Diversified Energy Inc 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Hometown Mechanical 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Burlington Service Center 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Angels Baseball LP 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Finishing Touch Millwork, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maravilla 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Full Service Janitorial Inc 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Vida Real 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Fairview Heights 185 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, 2022, 2021. 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.