Fish, tropical, merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Blue Springs Hatchery

Name: Blue Springs Hatchery Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Pell City, AL · ~67 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Blue Springs Hatchery runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fish, tropical, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Blue Springs Hatchery: 1.7 TCR = 79% of Fish, tropical, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Springs Hatchery safety composite

Blue Springs Hatchery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Blue Springs Hatchery: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.7× in 2019

Blue Springs Hatchery's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424990 · Pell City, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 79% of ind

DART 2.9 DART
RANK #2/4
PHOTO Dermalogica
BOOK 4y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dermalogica (0.0 TCR gap)

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East Coast New

1.8
This site

1.7
Dermalogica

1.7
Maple Ridge Fa

1.7
Gemmy Industri

1.7

What this shows Blue Springs Hatchery averages 1.7 TCR (79% of the Fish, tropical, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Blue Springs Hatchery TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Blue Springs Hatchery falls in its industry

301 Fish, tropical, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Fish, tropical, merchant whole employers in Alabama.

Blue Springs Hatchery (67 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Blue Springs Hatchery has more employees than the Fish, tropical, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2019	2.9	2.9	1
2018	2.5	1.2	2
2017	1.5	0.0	1
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424990 · AL · Pell City

301 Fish, tropical, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 44 employers in Pell City, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Dermalogica	CARSON, CA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Maple Ridge Farms, Inc.	MOSINEE, WI	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	East Coast News CA	VAN NUYS, CA	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Gemmy Industries Corp.	COPPELL, TX	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	DANCO Industrial Contractors, Inc.	DOTHAN	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SP&J General Contractors, Inc.	TRINITY	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	P & M Mechanical, Inc.	BIRMINGHAM	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BrandSafway Solutions, LLC - Mobile Branch	MOBILE	67 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eissmann Group Automotive	Pell City	560 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WKW Erbsloeh North America, LLC	Pell City	465 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Col Robert L Howard	Pell City	371 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 5113	Pell City	348 FTE
NAT-TCR	6962-Swy 0029 2235	Newport Beach, CA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Swg Casa Grande Office 0032-Fac12	Casa Grande, AZ	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Compression Technologies and Services : SVC-Minneapolis MN-USA	Minneapolis, MN	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dawn Food Products - Manteno Manufacturing	Manteno, IL	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	kj's market hephzibah	Hephzibah, GA	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	st stephens iga	St. Stephens, SC	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kodak Weatherford	Weatherford, OK	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	6962-Swy 0029 2442	Fillmore, CA	67 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.