Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel · Ohio

WS Columbus

Columbus, OH · ~177 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WS Columbus runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel workplace, earning a grade C.

WS Columbus: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WS Columbus safety composite

WS Columbus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

WS Columbus: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2020

WS Columbus's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331221 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #19/36
  • PHOTO WS Decatur
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WS Decatur (0.0 TCR gap)

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WS Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WS Columbus averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel BLS benchmark).

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

WS Columbus TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where WS Columbus falls in its industry

206 Steel Product Manufacturing fr establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 36 Steel Product Manufacturing fr employers in Ohio.

WS Columbus (177 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate WS Columbus
WS Columbus (177 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9

WS Columbus has more employees than the Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchas 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
2020 4.6 1.5 5 1 0
2019 2.7 1.6 5 0 0
2018 5.2 1.6 10 0 0
2017 4.6 1.1 8 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331221 · OH · Columbus

206 Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 WS Decatur 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Steel Strip Corp. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tufts Grinding, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSAB Northport 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Municipal Energy Services Agency / AMP 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Thomas J. Dyer Company 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pratt (Lewisburg Corrugating), LLC 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pressboard Paper Technologies LLC. 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR ON Semiconductor Pocatello 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Telelfex Medical 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Napa Detroit Main Store 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Newnan-Christopher Ct 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Uptown Care Center, LLC 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE TriLink Biotechnologies LLC 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phillips and Jordan, Inc./Zephyrhills, FL 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Classic Wines of California 177 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.