Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Alabama

Bigbee Steel

Muscle Shoals, AL · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bigbee Steel runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bigbee Steel: 5.0 TCR = 153% of Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bigbee Steel safety composite

Bigbee Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Bigbee Steel: 4.4 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2024

Bigbee Steel's TCR rose 2.1 from 4.4 in 2022 to 6.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Muscle Shoals, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #10/16
  • PHOTO Trachte North
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trachte North (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bigbee Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bigbee Steel averages 5.0 TCR (153% of the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bigbee Steel TCR series: 2022=4.4 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Bigbee Steel falls in its industry

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

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 16 Buildings, prefabricated metal employers in Alabama.

Bigbee Steel (86 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bigbee Steel
Bigbee Steel (86 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Bigbee Steel has more employees than the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 4 0 0
2022 4.4 2.2 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · AL · Muscle Shoals

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 63 employers in Muscle Shoals, 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 Trachte North 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewisport 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frey-Moss Structures Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MB-Salt Lake City 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ambassador Sanitation Management @ Wayne Farms 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Birmingham Division West Jefferson Office 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anniston Complex 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDL Contracting, Inc. 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Lighting - Muscle Shoals 1,616 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAL MUSCLE SHOALS PLANT 1,610 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Lighting - Alabama 1,488 FTE
CITY-NEAR Constellium Muscle Shoals LLC - Alloys Operations 1,113 FTE
NAT-TCR Vas Engineering, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryan Fireprotection, Inc. - Indianapolis 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Roads Sanitation District 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parnell & Associates Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Traverse City 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medina Nursing Center 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE RGA Enterprises, Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palmetto Services, LLC 86 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, 2022. 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.