Mail and Parcel Delivery · Alabama

012070-Cottondale Po

Cottondale, AL · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

012070-Cottondale Po runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade D.

012070-Cottondale Po: 6.8 TCR = 152% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

012070-Cottondale Po safety composite

012070-Cottondale Po scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

012070-Cottondale Po: 5.8 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.66× in 2022

012070-Cottondale Po's TCR rose 5.6 from 5.8 in 2018 to 11.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Cottondale, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 152% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #130/258
  • PHOTO LOVERS LANE_1371043
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LOVERS LANE_1371043 (0.0 TCR gap)

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012070-Cottondale Po in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 012070-Cottondale Po averages 6.8 TCR (152% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

012070-Cottondale Po TCR series: 2018=5.8 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=11.4 · BLS 4.5

Where 012070-Cottondale Po falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #130 safest of 258 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in Alabama.

012070-Cottondale Po (22 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 012070-Cottondale Po
012070-Cottondale Po (22 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

012070-Cottondale Po has fewer employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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
2022 11.4 11.4 1 1 0
2021 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2018 5.8 5.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · AL · Cottondale

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 11 employers in Cottondale, AL · 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 LOVERS LANE_1371043 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAYETTEVILLE CARRIER ANNEX_1363231 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PULLMAN_1378533 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR THOMASVILLE_1384561 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Breeder/Broiler 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden Alabama 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.A.D.H. GIN, INC. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Logan Martin Dam 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAC Cottondale 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inteva Products Cottondale Operations 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Tuscaloosa 2 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR 016 TA Tuscaloosa 91 FTE
NAT-TCR 384856-Mns-Main Office Sta 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 451804-Cae-Main Office Sta 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 161507-Chi-Chicago Central Anx 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 211534-Chalmette Po 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 474692-Lafayette Po 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 114200-Immokalee Po 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 479024-Waverly Po 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 479396-Woodbury Po 22 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.