Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Alabama

Apel Steel Corporation

Cullman, AL · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apel Steel Corporation runs at 557% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Apel Steel Corporation: 18.4 TCR = 557% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apel Steel Corporation safety composite

Apel Steel Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Apel Steel Corporation: 21.7 → 23.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 23.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Apel Steel Corporation's TCR rose 1.4 from 21.7 in 2020 to 23.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Cullman, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.4 · 557% of ind

  • DART 18.4 DART
  • RANK #61/61
  • PHOTO Structures USA LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Structures USA LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apel Steel Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apel Steel Corporation averages 18.4 TCR (557% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Apel Steel Corporation TCR series: 2020=21.7 · 2021=11.4 · 2022=17.4 · 2024=23 · BLS 3.3

Where Apel Steel Corporation falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 61 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Alabama.

Apel Steel Corporation (56 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Apel Steel Corporation
Apel Steel Corporation (56 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Apel Steel Corporation has more employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 23.0 18.4 15 0 0
2022 17.4 8.7 12 0 0
2021 11.4 3.3 7 0 0
2020 21.7 12.6 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · AL · Cullman

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 98 employers in Cullman, 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 Structures USA LLC 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson Building Materials 18.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western States Steel & Fab., Inc. 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR S & S Welding, Inc 18.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marshall Dekalb Electric 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pelham, AL Office CS 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at Shell Chemical LP Saraland AL 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUMMIT ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cullman 1,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6006 1,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6006 1,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rehau Auto Cullman 1,008 FTE
NAT-TCR Eureka ADT 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlotte 4c's Vending 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Highwood Global LP 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Win-Dor, Inc. 18.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE MCM Technologies, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACS Steel Company, LLC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unholtz-Dickie Corporation 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE 451 Pepsi Road 56 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.