Steel mills · Alabama

Fairfield Tubular Operations

Fairfield, AL · ~745 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fairfield Tubular Operations runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Fairfield Tubular Operations: 0.7 TCR = 22% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fairfield Tubular Operations safety composite

Fairfield Tubular Operations scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−0.4

2023→2024

Fairfield Tubular Operations injury rate improved

Fairfield Tubular Operations's TCR fell 0.4 from 0.9 in 2023 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.9 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Fairfield, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #5/17
  • PHOTO Automotive Center
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~745 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Automotive Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fairfield Tubular Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fairfield Tubular Operations averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Fairfield Tubular Operations TCR series: 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Fairfield Tubular Operations falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 17 Steel mills employers in Alabama.

Fairfield Tubular Operations (745 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fairfield Tubular Operations
Fairfield Tubular Operations (745 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Fairfield Tubular Operations has more employees than the Steel mills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 0.5 0.3 4 0 0
2023 0.9 0.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · AL · Fairfield

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 9 employers in Fairfield, 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 Automotive Center 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metals USA Liberty 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel Florida, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Latrobe Operations 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CBE 744 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brent 740 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant 739 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adient 739 FTE
CITY-NEAR USS Fairfield Works - Tubular 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR HarbisonWalker International 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0882 FAIRFIELD 89 FTE
NAT-TCR Staxmatic, LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR GCM, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas 10510 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Newark 10213 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anchorage FO/INFL Alaska 745 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freedman Seating Company 745 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alice Hyde Medical Center 745 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trustbridge, Inc. 745 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. 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.