ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING · Alabama

Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al

Homewood, AL · ~187 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING workplace, earning a grade B.

Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al: 2.6 TCR = 79% of ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al safety composite

Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.58 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

−1.5

2020→2024

Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al injury rate improved

Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al's TCR fell 1.5 from 4.1 in 2020 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.1 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Homewood, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK P77
  • PHOTO Turkey Hill LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~187 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Turkey Hill LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al averages 2.6 TCR (79% of the ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING BLS benchmark).

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

Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al TCR series: 2020=4.1 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al falls in its industry

111 ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUF establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al (187 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al
Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al (187 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Dfa Ice Cream - Birmingham Al has more employees than the ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 2.6 2.6 5 0 0
2023 1.8 0.9 4 0 0
2022 1.7 0.9 4 0 0
2021 2.8 0.5 6 0 0
2020 4.1 3.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · AL · Homewood

111 ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 39 employers in Homewood, 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 Turkey Hill LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugar Creek Foods International Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR M750-M001 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lukes Inc 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Physical Security L.L.C. 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ox Bodies 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10D8126 PHARMA BIRMINGHAM 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2760 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1481 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1481 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2796 - Homewood 281 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 226 FTE
NAT-TCR Young Electric + Communications 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Seedway - Hall 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1286 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Labastida Brothers 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10572 West Loop 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10152 Arden Way 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10057 Greenwich 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1445 187 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. 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.