Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Alabama

Chowel Weldparts Inc.

Luverne, AL · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chowel Weldparts Inc. runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Chowel Weldparts Inc.: 8.2 TCR = 152% of Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chowel Weldparts Inc. safety composite

Chowel Weldparts Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2019→2020

Chowel Weldparts Inc. injury rate improved

Chowel Weldparts Inc.'s TCR fell 2.9 from 9.6 in 2019 to 6.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.6 · 2020=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Luverne, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.2 · 152% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #36/36
  • PHOTO GRANGER
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GRANGER (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chowel Weldparts Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chowel Weldparts Inc. averages 8.2 TCR (152% of the Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chowel Weldparts Inc. TCR series: 2019=9.6 · 2020=6.7 · BLS 5.4

Where Chowel Weldparts Inc. falls in its industry

772 Bumpers and bumperettes assemb establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 36 Bumpers and bumperettes assemb employers in Alabama.

Chowel Weldparts Inc. (80 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chowel Weldparts Inc.
Chowel Weldparts Inc. (80 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Chowel Weldparts Inc. has fewer employees than the Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, autom median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2020 6.7 1.7 4 0 0
2019 9.6 5.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · AL · Luverne

772 Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 16 employers in Luverne, 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 GRANGER 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Lupton Facility 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TI Group Automotive, LLC 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAP of Easton - Elkhart Plant 8.0 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 ITAC LLC 665 FTE
CITY-NEAR SMART Alabama LLC 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR SMART AL, LLC 624 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dongwon Alabama 276 FTE
NAT-TCR California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) 042 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1038 St. Peters, MO 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 396N/20/6A/6E 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Alaska Old Seward Store 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE CCGA1000 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oceana Foods, Inc. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE True Value Kingman RDC 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanitech Building Maintenance 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: 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.