Casters, furniture, metal manufacturing · Alabama

Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc.

Birmingham, AL · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Casters, furniture, metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc.: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Casters, furniture, metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. safety composite

Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.5

2017→2019

Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. injury rate improved

Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.5 from 6.5 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Birmingham, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Spectrum Brands, HHI…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spectrum Brands, HHI Denison (0.0 TCR gap)

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Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Casters, furniture, metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. TCR series: 2017=6.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. falls in its industry

189 Casters, furniture, metal manu establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Casters, furniture, metal manu employers in Alabama.

Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc.
Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Edwards Equipment Sales, Inc. has fewer employees than the Casters, furniture, metal manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · AL · Birmingham

189 Casters, furniture, metal manufacturing 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Spectrum Brands, HHI Denison 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Lock Company 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Array Technologies, Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oetiker Inc 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Western Division Jasper Business Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2020 Osha form 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ozark Safety Services, LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newell & Bush, Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Louisville Pipe & Precast 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR San Francisco Int. Airport 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Deland Pipe & Precast 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Denny's Store #316 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Mirage Pipe 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Next-Tek Finishing 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orchard Park Assisted Living 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE LTCS11554 35 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.