Highway sign structures · Alabama

Birmingham - Walpar

Birmingham, AL · ~80 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birmingham - Walpar runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Highway sign structures workplace, earning a grade F.

Birmingham - Walpar: 7.9 TCR = 239% of Highway sign structures BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birmingham - Walpar safety composite

Birmingham - Walpar scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 - Walpar: 6.8 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2022

Birmingham - Walpar's TCR rose 0.5 from 6.8 in 2020 to 7.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 239% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #50/61
  • PHOTO Southwestern Suppliers
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwestern Suppliers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birmingham - Walpar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birmingham - Walpar averages 7.9 TCR (239% of the Highway sign structures BLS benchmark).

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

Birmingham - Walpar TCR series: 2020=6.8 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Birmingham - Walpar falls in its industry

1,491 Highway sign structures establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #50 safest of 61 Highway sign structures employers in Alabama.

Birmingham - Walpar (80 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Birmingham - Walpar
Birmingham - Walpar (80 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Birmingham - Walpar has more employees than the Highway sign structures 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
2022 7.2 6.2 7 0 0
2021 9.7 4.2 7 0 0
2020 6.8 4.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · AL · Birmingham

1,491 Highway sign structures 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 Southwestern Suppliers 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CANAM Bridges, USA 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sippel Co., Inc. dba Sippel Steel Fab 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lenex Steel - Terre Haute 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GP Production (Alabama) 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Birmingham 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at Shell Chemical LP Saraland AL 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Garrison Steel Erectors, Inc 80 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 Bed Bath and Beyond North Raleigh 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CBH Feed and Ag 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR San Marcos Rehabilitation and Health Care 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Home City Ice Company - Lexington - 080 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 9095-OAK 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arlun Inc 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Elizabeth Boardman-EVS 80 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: 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.