Motor vehicle metal bumper stampings · Alabama

Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9)

Cusseta, AL · ~66 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor vehicle metal bumper stampings workplace, earning a grade C.

Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9): 4.9 TCR = 91% of Motor vehicle metal bumper stampings BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) safety composite

Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9): 4.4 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9)'s TCR rose 0.8 from 4.4 in 2020 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336370 · Cusseta, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 91% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #13/28
  • PHOTO L&W Engineering/Auto…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: L&W Engineering/Autokiniton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) averages 4.9 TCR (91% of the Motor vehicle metal bumper stampings BLS benchmark).

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

Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) TCR series: 2020=4.4 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 5.4

Where Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) falls in its industry

510 Motor vehicle metal bumper sta establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 28 Motor vehicle metal bumper sta employers in Alabama.

Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) (66 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9)
Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) (66 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) has fewer employees than the Motor vehicle metal bumper stampings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 3.5 3 0 0
2023 6.1 1.5 3 1 0
2022 4.1 2.7 3 0 0
2020 4.4 3.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336370 · AL · Cusseta

510 Motor vehicle metal bumper stampings employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 8 employers in Cusseta, 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 L&W Engineering/Autokiniton 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Production LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freeway Cleveland 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Bend Manufacturing 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Western Division Tuscaloosa Crew Headquarters 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signature Homes-Birmingham office 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Douglas Alabama 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jim Cooper Construction Company, inc. 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Joon, LLC dba AJIN USA 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Daedong HI-LEX DDHLA 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wooshin USA 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manufacturing 119 FTE
NAT-TCR Colonial Systems 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Norwood Park Fire Protection District 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Solar Connection 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Adel Wholesalers Inc. - Bettendorf 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Young Electric Co., Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE World Arts, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bench One Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brumfield Construction, Inc. 66 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.