Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham

Name: Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham Workplace Safety Data
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Birmingham, AL · ~93 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.0
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham: 1.0 TCR = 45% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham safety composite

Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.97 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

Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham: 1.1 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.1 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 45% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK #3/28
PHOTO Wheeler Machinery Co.
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wheeler Machinery Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham averages 1.0 TCR (45% of the Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 28 Construction machinery and equ employers in Alabama.

Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham (93 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham has more employees than the Construction machinery and equipment mer 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
2024	1.9	1.0	2
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2022	1.1	1.1	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · AL · Birmingham

533 Construction machinery and equipment 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Wheeler Machinery Co.	SALT LAKE CITY, UT	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Berry Companies Inc	WICHITA, KS	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	57-TTCO-HUNTSVILLE	HUNTSVILLE, AL	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Clayton Parts Distribution Center	CLAYTON, OH	1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	B.H. Craig Construction Co., Inc.	FLORENCE	93 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RDA Services Company	CITRONELLE	93 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Construction	MOBILE	93 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Newellroadbuilders, Inc.	HOPE HULL	93 FTE
CITY-NEAR	USD	Birmingham	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CLASSIC FOODS	Birmingham	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate	Birmingham	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BIRMINGHAM PACKERS	Birmingham	8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR	IC Coachways Inc.	Staten Island, NY	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Insteel Wire Products FLS	Sanderson, FL	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Smith Systems, Inc.	Brevard, NC	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Midwest Plant	Portage, IN	1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Preferred Properties, Inc.	Eagan, MN	93 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Washington Penn - FPD	Frankfort, KY	93 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mt. View Farming, Inc.	Tulare, CA	93 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ksman - Manhattan	Manhattan, KS	93 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.