Primary smelting of aluminum · Kentucky

Century Aluminum

Hawesville, KY · ~445 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Century Aluminum runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Primary smelting of aluminum workplace, earning a grade B.

Century Aluminum: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Primary smelting of aluminum BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Century Aluminum safety composite

Century Aluminum scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Century Aluminum: 1.4 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2022

Century Aluminum's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.4 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331313 · Hawesville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK P65
  • PHOTO Constellium
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~445 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Constellium (0.1 TCR gap)

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Century Aluminum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Century Aluminum averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Primary smelting of aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Century Aluminum TCR series: 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Century Aluminum falls in its industry

49 Primary smelting of aluminum establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Century Aluminum (445 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0200400600800 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Century Aluminum
Century Aluminum (445 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Century Aluminum has more employees than the Primary smelting of aluminum 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2022 3.0 2.0 12 0 0
2021 3.2 2.0 19 0 0
2020 1.2 0.8 6 0 0
2019 1.4 0.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331313 · KY · Hawesville

49 Primary smelting of aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 4 employers in Hawesville, KY · 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 Constellium 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sasol Tucson 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AluChem of Little Rock 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Impact South 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Koch Filter 445 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1113 445 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zoeller Pump Company 446 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kentucky Cooperage 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hawesville 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwire Company Kentucky Plant 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tristar Construction 28 FTE
NAT-TCR CO.BOULD.22 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Frio Distributing LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 275110-Mer-North Sta 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Main 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. 445 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Css Carolinas Medical Center 445 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Roberts Construction Group - Corporate 445 FTE
NAT-SIZE S2C Management 445 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, 2019. 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.