Acetylene manufacturing · Alabama

Birmingham Acetylene Plant

Birmingham, AL · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birmingham Acetylene Plant runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Acetylene manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Birmingham Acetylene Plant: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Acetylene manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birmingham Acetylene Plant safety composite

Birmingham Acetylene Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Birmingham Acetylene Plant: 3.4 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

Birmingham Acetylene Plant's TCR rose 0.6 from 3.4 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Denver
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denver (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birmingham Acetylene Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birmingham Acetylene Plant averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the Acetylene manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Birmingham Acetylene Plant TCR series: 2023=3.4 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Birmingham Acetylene Plant falls in its industry

295 Acetylene manufacturing establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Acetylene manufacturing employers in Alabama.

Birmingham Acetylene Plant (24 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Birmingham Acetylene Plant
Birmingham Acetylene Plant (24 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Birmingham Acetylene Plant has fewer employees than the Acetylene manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · AL · Birmingham

295 Acetylene manufacturing 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 Denver 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCPC Channahon 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Praxair Kansas City 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albion, MI 3.6 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 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 08004-08-08-MEDFORD 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pet Factory, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1060 Franklin Regional SD 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Neave Landscaping Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stemilt North 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Genesis Energy,Scenic Station 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Complete Fire Solutions, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mulberry Creek Assisted Living 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: 2024, 2023. 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.