Experience

With more than 85 years of operating experience, one billion dollars in project work and 12 million work hours throughout North America over the last decade, National Steel City is the leading U.S. steel construction and erection company, delivering safe, comprehensive, on-time construction services. Since 1998, NSC has consistently ranked among Engineering News-Record’s top structural steel erection companies. At NSC, our reputation is consistently building, and eclipsed recently by a high-profile citation by one of the largest utilities in the nation as the most productive contractor ever measured.

Safety

National Steel City brings unparalleled company core value BEST safety practices to each project we undertake.  We value safety on the job, but fully recognize the need to bring safety into each aspect of our employees’ lives.  In recognition of this need National Steel City is proud to launch:

SAWHORSE

Safety At Work, Home, Office, Recreation,Safety Everywhere

The implementation of SAWHORSE will bring safety into the lives of each and every one of our employees. We will accomplish this by continuously educating our employees on the growing focus of safety everywhere, this includes providing industry-leading employee training, and by providing SAWHORSE safety tips on employee paystubs each week.  No matter where our employees may be, from home or office to recreational activities – SAWHORSE literally brings the safety everywhere concept to life.

Ingenuity

For more than a decade, we have employed a suite of internally-developed, as well as industry standard management control systems that serve as the cornerstone of our success, SCIMITAR: Specialty Contracting, Integrated, Management, Information, Tracking and Reporting. Through this innovative internal control system, NSC has been able to perform and deliver at the highest level of customer service and satisfaction, consistently meeting andexceeding customer expectations and never missing a deadline or schedule commitment.

Safety

SAWHORSE = 360-degree safety

National Steel City’s Safety Record:

•   Five-times Lower OSHA Recordable Incident Rate than the industry average
•   Extremely competitive EMR, TRIR
•   One of the Industry’s lowest DART rates
•   FDR Safety – safety best practices and guidance in a continuum

At National Steel City, safety is a core company value and a commitment to our customers and employees that is practiced on all projects. At the heart of our safety program is SAWHORSE, our official safety awareness initiative designed to help foster a culture of safety throughout the company, from employee performance and conduct on project sites to recreational activities and performing basic tasks at home.

SAWHORSE ensures all National Steel City employees are knowledgeable and practice a safe way of life. There is a reason our OSHA Recordable Incident Rate is approximately FIVE times lower than the average contractor in the steel erection business. To maintain the safest jobsites for our employees, we review client safety rules and procedures and evaluate them against our corporate standards to ensure all site-specific work conditions and hazards are addressed in our safety plans.

All site-specific rules, procedures and hazards are communicated to all employees during site orientation, daily toolbox safety meetings, and weekly foreman and project-wide mass safety meetings.

Through National Steel City’s SAWHORSE program, employees are educated on how to embrace safety best practices wherever they may be: on a project site, at home, in the office, or perhaps in recreational activities, to ensure safety remains number one and top-of-mind for all employees, all the time.

Highly competitive EMR

Another important component demonstrating our commitment to excellence in safety is our Experience Modification Rate (EMR). A laser-like focus on continuous safety improvement has helped us maintain an extremely competitive EMR.

A low EMR allows us to have a lower cost for Workers Compensation insurance and thus a more competitive price to our clients. In the event of an Owners Controlled Insurance Program (OCIP), our EMR demonstrates that we will likely have a lower overall cost to the Owner with our presence on the site.

FDRsafety

National Steel City has maintained an outstanding safety track record through a long-term alliance with premier safety consulting firm, FDRsafety. With approximately 25 years of OSHA experience, FDRsafety President Jim Stanley rose to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor in the United States government’s Department of Labor.

Mr. Stanley and FDRsafety regularly consult with the company on both our overall corporate safety program and projects, providing advice, counsel and training for all managers and supervisors.In addition, FDRsafety conducts regular independent site audits of all projects. Mr. Stanley has counseled the company’s senior managers, presented at company meetings and submitted safety material for company publications.

Structural Steel Erection

Unmatched Reputation. Absolute Dedication.

With computerized job tracking and experienced field personnel, NSC brings our customers superior capabilities and unparalleled dedication to quality and safety. From the time steel  arrives on site until it’s in place on your project, every piece is accounted for and every effort has been made to maximize efficiency in the erection process.

NSC creates detailed erection narratives prior to beginning any project which consist of the needed plans to ensure the safest and most efficient means of construction are used to put each piece of steel in place, as well as a plan for safe access, and fall protection for each stage of construction.  Our goal is to have a positive influence on both quality and safety culture at a facility or plant which lasts well after we demobilize from the site.

Our experience has included both “Greenfield”  straight erection projects as well as complex retrofits of existing facilities and structures which require significant planning and stability engineering. Please see our project list for a description of projects.