Steel mills · Alabama

Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations

Fairfield, AL · ~192 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations: 1.5 TCR = 44% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations safety composite

Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations: 1.1 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.1 in 2023 to 1.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #8/17
  • PHOTO Cleveland Works
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cleveland Works (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations averages 1.5 TCR (44% 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 Steel Operations TCR series: 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #8 safest of 17 Steel mills employers in Alabama.

Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations (192 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Steel Operations
Fairfield Tubular Steel Operations (192 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Fairfield Tubular Steel 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 1.8 0.9 4 0 0
2023 1.1 0.6 2 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 Cleveland Works 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - FR Columbus 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAO : LSM - Elyria, OH 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Dynamics Flat Roll Group - Heartland 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE MAAS Aviation Brookley Inc 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE Polymer Industries - Henagar 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE TMS Axis 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berg Spiral pipe 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Tubular Operations 745 FTE
CITY-NEAR USS Fairfield Works - Tubular 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR HarbisonWalker International 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0882 FAIRFIELD 89 FTE
NAT-TCR UFP Belchertown LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR GGI Rockingham 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North Andover-Haverhill-Ma29 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Royalton High School 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE HCF of Briarwood, Inc. 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Access Limited Construction Inc 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village Health & Rehabilitation 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grae-Con construction 192 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.