Employer · Alabama

Decatur 01 Chem

Decatur, AL · ~480 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Decatur 01 Chem runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Decatur 01 Chem: 1.3 TCR = 40% of industry BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Decatur 01 Chem safety composite

Decatur 01 Chem scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Decatur 01 Chem held a steady TCR band

Decatur 01 Chem's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.0 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.0 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=2.0 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0.4 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326113 · Decatur, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Klockner Pentaplast …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~480 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Klockner Pentaplast of America Gordonsville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Decatur 01 Chem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Decatur 01 Chem averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Decatur 01 Chem TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=2 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0.4 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Decatur 01 Chem falls in its industry

303 industry establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 industry employers in Alabama.

Decatur 01 Chem (480 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Decatur 01 Chem
Decatur 01 Chem (480 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Decatur 01 Chem has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 1.1 0.5 7 1 0
2023 2.1 2.1 9 0 0
2022 0.4 0.4 2 0 0
2021 1.5 0.8 6 1 0
2020 1.1 0.9 5 0 0
2019 2.0 0.9 8 1 0
2018 0.4 0.2 2 0 0
2017 2.3 2.1 10 0 0
2016 1.0 0.5 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326113 · AL · Decatur

303 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 239 employers in Decatur, 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 Klockner Pentaplast of America Gordonsville 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Azek Building Products- Decking 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inteplast Gray Court 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Celgard, LLC 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Essity Professional Hygiene 481 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kohler Co. - Huntsville 481 FTE
STATE-SIZE JACKSON, AL 478 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanders Lead Company, Inc. 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain - Decatur 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur processing plant 885 FTE
CITY-NEAR ULA-Decatur 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Fresh Plant 671 FTE
NAT-TCR Micro Systems, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Indue Sales and Services, Inc. 643 Brakke Dr. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nci - Dallas Tx 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mondelez International Toledo Flour Mill 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Masonite Tampa Corporate Office 480 FTE
NAT-SIZE B&E Resources 480 FTE
NAT-SIZE Candle-lite, Company 480 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shell Gulf of Mexico 480 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.