Poles and Piling production and treating · Alabama

Cox Wood of Alabama

Vance, AL · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cox Wood of Alabama runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poles and Piling production and treating workplace, earning a grade D.

Cox Wood of Alabama: 4.1 TCR = 124% of Poles and Piling production and treating BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cox Wood of Alabama safety composite

Cox Wood of Alabama scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Cox Wood of Alabama: 5.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.78× in 2019

Cox Wood of Alabama's TCR rose 2.3 from 5.0 in 2017 to 7.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Vance, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #11/22
  • PHOTO Great Southern Wood …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Southern Wood - Greenbush Wood Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cox Wood of Alabama in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cox Wood of Alabama averages 4.1 TCR (124% of the Poles and Piling production and treating BLS benchmark).

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

Cox Wood of Alabama TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Cox Wood of Alabama falls in its industry

183 Poles and Piling production an establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 22 Poles and Piling production an employers in Alabama.

Cox Wood of Alabama (23 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cox Wood of Alabama
Cox Wood of Alabama (23 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Cox Wood of Alabama has fewer employees than the Poles and Piling production and treating median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2019 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · AL · Vance

183 Poles and Piling production and treating employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 27 employers in Vance, 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 Great Southern Wood - Greenbush Wood Products 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cox Industries-Corporate 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CFP Arbuckle 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baldwin Pole Mississippi LLC 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Geraldine Breeder/Broilers 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ashland Breeder and Broiler 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur hatchery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenaska Central Alabama Generating Station 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes Benz US. International 6,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Tuscaloosa 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brose Tuscaloosa` 751 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ard Logistics, LLC 563 FTE
NAT-TCR Arnold Tool & Die Co 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR northeast seafood products 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynex/Rivett Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Strauss Veal Feeds, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tram Lumber, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gedia Michigan LP 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaCrosse 93 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Curtis Bay 23 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.