Machine shops · Alabama

Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc.

Fairfield, AL · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc. runs at 550% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc.: 18.1 TCR = 550% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc. safety composite

Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc.: 16.6 → 29.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 29.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2020

Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc.'s TCR rose 12.6 from 16.6 in 2018 to 29.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.1 · 550% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #29/29
  • PHOTO Boyd Machine and Rep…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boyd Machine and Repair Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc. averages 18.1 TCR (550% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc. TCR series: 2018=16.6 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=29.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #29 safest of 29 Machine shops employers in Alabama.

Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 18.1) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc.
Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 18.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Barron Machine and Fabrication, 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
2020 29.1 4.9 6 0 0
2019 8.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 16.6 4.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · AL · Fairfield

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 9 employers in Fairfield, 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 Boyd Machine and Repair Co Inc 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. A. Wold & Sons Inc 18.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fox Tool & Manufacturing Inc. 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR O & S Precision, Inc. 18.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Young's Plant Farm, Inc. (Farm 1) 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherokee Gin & Cotton Company 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snead Growout 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Energy Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Tubular Operations 745 FTE
CITY-NEAR USS Fairfield Works - Tubular 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR HarbisonWalker International 110 FTE
NAT-TCR 254720-Iron Mountain Po 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Julia Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cdc Mule Creek State Prison 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cross Town Movers 18.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CARS Recon Inc Washington Dulles 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitesville Branch 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester Branch 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE All-Star-Lakeville 24 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: 2020, 2019, 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.