Machine shops · Alabama

Alco Machine Company, Inc.

Birmingham, AL · ~37 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alco Machine Company, Inc. runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Alco Machine Company, Inc.: 5.4 TCR = 165% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alco Machine Company, Inc. safety composite

Alco Machine Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Alco Machine Company, Inc.: 3.4 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Alco Machine Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.3 from 3.4 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 165% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/29
  • PHOTO Sussek Machine Company
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sussek Machine Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alco Machine Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alco Machine Company, Inc. averages 5.4 TCR (165% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Alco Machine Company, Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.4 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=11 · 2023=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Alco Machine Company, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 29 Machine shops employers in Alabama.

Alco Machine Company, Inc. (37 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Alco Machine Company, Inc.
Alco Machine Company, Inc. (37 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Alco Machine Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 7.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 11.0 0.0 3 0 0
2021 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · AL · Birmingham

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, 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 Sussek Machine Company 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trade Tech Incorporated 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southeastern Extrusion & Tool, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rite Hite Clare Facility 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gordo Hatchery 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRI CREEK FOREST PRODUCTS 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE M&M Goldeneye 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mobile Division Schillinger Crew Headquarters 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Perkiomenville 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dampers, Louvers CA 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Field 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamtramck 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stanley Street 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smooth Sailing of Brevard, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE 30421 Capstone - Wj Beitler Pittsburgh Pa 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Motion Systems : Goodland 37 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.