Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) · Alabama

Donald Smith Company, Inc.

Headland, AL · ~57 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Donald Smith Company, Inc. runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) workplace, earning a grade A.

Donald Smith Company, Inc.: 0.9 TCR = 33% of Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Donald Smith Company, Inc. safety composite

Donald Smith Company, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−5.8

2017→2024

Donald Smith Company, Inc. injury rate improved

Donald Smith Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.8 from 5.8 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Headland, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO 102843 - Rondout Wes…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 102843 - Rondout West Branch Bypass Water Tunnel (0.0 TCR gap)

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Donald Smith Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Donald Smith Company, Inc. averages 0.9 TCR (33% of the Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) BLS benchmark).

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

Donald Smith Company, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Donald Smith Company, Inc. falls in its industry

1,614 Water well drilling, digging, establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #2 safest of 11 Water well drilling, digging, employers in Alabama.

Donald Smith Company, Inc. (57 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Donald Smith Company, Inc.
Donald Smith Company, Inc. (57 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Donald Smith Company, Inc. has more employees than the Water well drilling, digging, boring or 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.8 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · AL · Headland

1,614 Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 10 employers in Headland, 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 102843 - Rondout West Branch Bypass Water Tunnel 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR STOUT CONSTRUCTION LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patriot Pipeline Inc 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&J Underground Inc 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southeast Division Eufaula Office 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colburn Construction Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wing Solar Project 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headland GP Shelling Plant 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Star Yeast Company 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pruitt Communications, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headland Business Office/Crew Headquarters 32 FTE
NAT-TCR PVE C3 - Product Validation Engineering 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lpr Construction 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Potters Industries LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oswego Harbor Power 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waters of Wabash East 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vignoble 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hikhu - Maui Center 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oksal - Sallisaw 57 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.