Employer · Alabama

Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek

Birmingham, AL · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek: 9.9 TCR = 220% of industry BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek safety composite

Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2017→2018

Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek injury rate improved

Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek's TCR fell 1.4 from 10.6 in 2017 to 9.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.6 · 2018=9.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 220% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO Division 10
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Division 10 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek averages 9.9 TCR (220% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek TCR series: 2017=10.6 · 2018=9.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek falls in its industry

421 industry establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek (32 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek
Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek (32 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Birmingham, AL - Shades Creek has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2018 9.2 6.1 3 0 0
2017 10.6 10.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · AL · Birmingham

421 industry 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 Division 10 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Division 21 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1161 CHICAGO SCHEDULED TRANSIT OPERATIONS 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Powell Maintenance Building 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ider Live Operations 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur Fresh Hatchery 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims Pride - Hatchery 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headland Business Office/Crew Headquarters 32 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 Sherwood Foods- Walton KY 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Coca-Cola Bottling Works of Tullahoma, Inc. - Clarksville Distribution 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heatherwilde Assisted Living 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 3051 S State St 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Company 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cubic Designs, Inc. - Waupaca 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office 81 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida CPC 32 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.