Industry profile · NAICS 423510
Metals service centers
Workplace injury rates across 1,348 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 1,348
- Employers
- 4.7
- Avg TCR
- 2.2
- BLS benchmark
- 13,062
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in Metals service centers average 4.7 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.1 times the BLS national benchmark of 2.2.
- 4.7
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 2.2
- BLS national benchmark
- 1,348
- employers reporting
- 13,062
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What Metals service centers Safety Data Reveals
The Metals service centers sector (NAICS 423510) encompasses 1,348 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 13,062 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 2.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 4.7 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Metals service centers that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers in this industry, by injury rate
Page 4 of 30| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newburgh Winwater Co | Walden, NY | F | 9.0 |
| Pennsylvania Steel- Throop | Throop, PA | F | 9.0 |
| Majestic Steel - Pittsburg | Pittsburg, CA | F | 9.0 |
| American Metal Processing Co. | Cleveland, OH | F | 9.0 |
| St. Lawrence Holdings, LLC | Maple Heights, OH | F | 9.0 |
| North Carolina Division | Siler City, NC | F | 8.9 |
| Hadco Metal Trading Headquarters | Bensalem, PA | F | 8.9 |
| AMI Metals, Inc. | Wichita, KS | F | 8.9 |
| Earle M Jorgensen Company | Hayward, CA | F | 8.8 |
| Hadco Metal Trading CA | Santa Fe Springs, CA | F | 8.8 |
| Nashua NAS | Nashua, NH | F | 8.8 |
| LV | Louisville, KY | F | 8.7 |
| state steel GI | Grand Island, NE | F | 8.7 |
| Milford Division | Milford, CT | F | 8.7 |
| Store 1 | Minneapolis, MN | F | 8.7 |
| State Steel Sioux falls | Sioux Falls, SD | F | 8.7 |
| 05 - Little Canada | Little Canada, MN | F | 8.6 |
| POSCO AAPC LLC Alabama | Mccalla, AL | F | 8.6 |
| Hawaii HON | Kapolei, HI | F | 8.6 |
| Steel Technologies Blytheville | Blytheville, AR | F | 8.6 |
| Gateway Materials, Inc | Lewiston, ID | F | 8.5 |
| Pennsylvania Steel-Cleveland | Berea, OH | F | 8.5 |
| MVS (Missouri Valley Steel) | Sioux City, IA | F | 8.5 |
| Fanello Industries | Lavonia, GA | F | 8.5 |
| Boyd Metals of Little Rock, Arkansas | Little Rock, AR | F | 8.5 |
| Wisconsin Metal Tech | Richfield, WI | F | 8.4 |
| McCullough Division | Kenton, OH | F | 8.4 |
| Connecticut Division | Milford, CT | F | 8.4 |
| Coilplus Illinois | Plainfield, IL | F | 8.4 |
| Branch 23 | Twin Falls, ID | F | 8.3 |
| 11 - Rome (TD) | Rome, GA | F | 8.3 |
| West Texas Steel & Supply | San Angelo, TX | F | 8.3 |
| LV | Lousiville, KY | F | 8.3 |
| Jacquet Mid Atlantic, Inc. | Limerick, PA | F | 8.3 |
| Pennsylvania Steel-Connecticut | Naugatuck, CT | F | 8.3 |
| Feralloy PDM Steel Service | Stockton, CA | F | 8.2 |
| Regal Steel Co. | Warren, MI | F | 8.2 |
| 500 Osage | Denver, CO | F | 8.1 |
| Glosser Steel Camp Hill | Camp Hill, PA | F | 8.1 |
| CY | Cincinnati, OH | F | 8.1 |
| Material Sciences Corporation | Whittier, CA | F | 8.1 |
| Choice Steel Company | Albuquerque, NM | F | 8.1 |
| Earle M. Jorgensen Company Cleveland 429 | Ohio, OH | F | 8.1 |
| Race City Steel, Inc. | Denver, NC | F | 8.1 |
| O'Brien Steel Service - Wausau Division | Wausau, WI | F | 8.0 |
| Chicago Division | Schaumburg, IL | F | 8.0 |
| Dallas DFW | Dallas, TX | F | 7.9 |
| F3 | Ft Wayne, IN | F | 7.9 |
| Dalco Metals, Inc | Walworth, WI | F | 7.9 |
| MN Plate | Plymouth, MN | F | 7.9 |
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