Iron foundries · Alabama

American Cast Iron Pipe Co

Birmingham, AL · ~1,653 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

American Cast Iron Pipe Co runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Iron foundries workplace, earning a grade D.

American Cast Iron Pipe Co: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Cast Iron Pipe Co safety composite

American Cast Iron Pipe Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

American Cast Iron Pipe Co: 3.8 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

American Cast Iron Pipe Co's TCR rose 1.6 from 3.8 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #10/18
  • PHOTO Browntown Foundry
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 223 inj
  • SIZE ~1,653 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Browntown Foundry (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Cast Iron Pipe Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Cast Iron Pipe Co averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

American Cast Iron Pipe Co TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where American Cast Iron Pipe Co falls in its industry

272 Iron foundries establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 18 Iron foundries employers in Alabama.

American Cast Iron Pipe Co (1,653 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate American Cast Iron Pipe Co
American Cast Iron Pipe Co (1,653 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

American Cast Iron Pipe Co has more employees than the Iron foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2024 5.4 3.5 90 6 0
2023 4.2 2.5 69 3 1
2016 3.8 2.5 64 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · AL · Birmingham

272 Iron foundries 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 Browntown Foundry 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mando Corporation America 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hodges Foundry 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 6 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Airbus Mobile Manufacturing Site 1,643 FTE
STATE-SIZE North American Lighting - Muscle Shoals 1,616 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm Fresh Foods, LLC 1,612 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAL MUSCLE SHOALS PLANT 1,610 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 Holiday Inn Golden Gateway 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 38th Street 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpha Packaging 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Albany Green Energy 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 050 Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital 1,653 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beverly Hospital 1,653 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sherman Case Rdy Plant 1,653 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manchester Memorial Hospital 1,652 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: 2024, 2023, 2016. 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.