Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing · Alabama

Buffalo Rock Gadsden

Gadsden, AL · ~128 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Rock Gadsden runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Buffalo Rock Gadsden: 5.8 TCR = 175% of Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Rock Gadsden safety composite

Buffalo Rock Gadsden scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Buffalo Rock Gadsden: 2.1 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

Buffalo Rock Gadsden's TCR rose 3.1 from 2.1 in 2022 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Gadsden, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Clement Pappas NC LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clement Pappas NC LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Rock Gadsden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Rock Gadsden averages 5.8 TCR (175% of the Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Rock Gadsden TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Buffalo Rock Gadsden falls in its industry

516 Beverages, soft drink (includi establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 14 Beverages, soft drink (includi employers in Alabama.

Buffalo Rock Gadsden (128 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Rock Gadsden
Buffalo Rock Gadsden (128 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Buffalo Rock Gadsden has fewer employees than the Beverages, soft drink (including artific median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 5.2 3.4 2 1 0
2023 10.1 10.1 8 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · AL · Gadsden

516 Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 82 employers in Gadsden, 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 Clement Pappas NC LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ShowLow 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7198-00804660 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6874-68740005 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mobile Paint Manufacturing Company of Delaware, Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Copper LLC dba National Copper & Smelting 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHA Alabama 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2659 LOWE S OF N. ANNISTON AL 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Gadsden Alabama 1,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gadsden Regional Medical Center 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant 1,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Plant 850 FTE
NAT-TCR University of Sioux Falls 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Osseo Area Learning Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR IRS Environmental of WA, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Azhlb - Holbrook 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phillips Chevrolet, Inc. 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Curia 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Rehabilitation and Living 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Southside 128 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.