Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade · West Virginia

Wheeling-Nisshin

Follansbee, WV · ~185 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wheeling-Nisshin runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Wheeling-Nisshin: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wheeling-Nisshin safety composite

Wheeling-Nisshin scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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)
B 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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-Nisshin: 1.0 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2019

Wheeling-Nisshin's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.0 in 2017 to 2.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Ionbond - Beachwood
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ionbond - Beachwood (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wheeling-Nisshin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wheeling-Nisshin averages 1.5 TCR (45% 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-Nisshin TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Wheeling-Nisshin falls in its industry

646 Aluminum coating of metal prod establishments

Safer than 84% 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 #1 safest of 4 Aluminum coating of metal prod employers in West Virginia.

Wheeling-Nisshin (185 employees, TCR 1.5) 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-Nisshin
Wheeling-Nisshin (185 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Wheeling-Nisshin 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
2019 2.0 0.5 4 0 0
2018 1.5 1.0 3 0 0
2017 1.0 0.3 3 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 Ionbond - Beachwood 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZZ Galvanizing - South Carolina LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asheboro - CR 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aleris Rolled Products - Ashville, OH 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Preston Contractors 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wheeling-Nippon Steel 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 LCO Toledo Regional Office 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Drainage Systems Inc.--Livermore 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grace Living Center-El Reno 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR USW - Tualatin 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Molten North America Corp 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE George E Ritchey 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schlumberger Technology Company 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Automotive Parts Headquarters, Inc. 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.