Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Cowin Equipment Company, Inc

Birmingham, AL · ~135 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cowin Equipment Company, Inc runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Cowin Equipment Company, Inc: 1.4 TCR = 64% of Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cowin Equipment Company, Inc safety composite

Cowin Equipment Company, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Cowin Equipment Company, Inc: 1.9 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.66× in 2021

Cowin Equipment Company, Inc's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.9 in 2019 to 2.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Birmingham, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 64% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #8/28
  • PHOTO St. Augustine RPC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Augustine RPC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cowin Equipment Company, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cowin Equipment Company, Inc averages 1.4 TCR (64% of the Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cowin Equipment Company, Inc TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Cowin Equipment Company, Inc falls in its industry

533 Road construction and maintena establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 28 Road construction and maintena employers in Alabama.

Cowin Equipment Company, Inc (135 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cowin Equipment Company, Inc
Cowin Equipment Company, Inc (135 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cowin Equipment Company, Inc has more employees than the Road construction and maintenance machin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2021 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.9 1.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · AL · Birmingham

533 Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, 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 St. Augustine RPC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CraneWorks LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 01072-01-01-QUINCY 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12 Syracuse PS 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 103420 - Naheola 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE IVXP LLC Decatur AL 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE LSAM Pan Line H Expansion 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Diamond, Inc. 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR 44411f - Nashville Dc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 43571m - Oklahoma City Zone 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR USCS, Turlock North 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Harding's Friendly Market #397 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ohio CAT - Columbus HE 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regency Plastics-Ubly Inc-Tx 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brothers Marketplace - Medfield 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pleasantview Home 135 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: 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.