Furnace filters manufacturing · Alabama

Filters Now, LLC

Creola, AL · ~122 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Filters Now, LLC runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Furnace filters manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Filters Now, LLC: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Furnace filters manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Filters Now, LLC safety composite

Filters Now, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Filters Now, LLC: 3.4 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2021

Filters Now, LLC's TCR rose 1.2 from 3.4 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333413 · Creola, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO AirPro Fan & Blower …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AirPro Fan & Blower co. -NORTH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Filters Now, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Filters Now, LLC averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Furnace filters manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Filters Now, LLC TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Filters Now, LLC falls in its industry

232 Furnace filters manufacturing establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Furnace filters manufacturing employers in Alabama.

Filters Now, LLC (122 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Filters Now, LLC
Filters Now, LLC (122 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Filters Now, LLC has more employees than the Furnace filters manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2021 4.6 2.8 5 0 0
2020 2.4 0.8 3 0 0
2019 5.1 1.7 6 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.4 3.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333413 · AL · Creola

232 Furnace filters manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 11 employers in Creola, 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 AirPro Fan & Blower co. -NORTH 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Air Flow Technology Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dampers OK 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR McGill AirClean LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Esfeller Construction Company 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fite Construction Company, LLC 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sparks Energy INC 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carcel & G Construction, LLC 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR G.A. West & Co 1,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashton & Co. Inc 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freudenberg Filtration Technologies (Filters Now) Creola, Alabama 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR LSB Contracting, LLC 66 FTE
NAT-TCR 4818-OH03 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Simmons Janesville 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Chi St Lukes Memorial-Lufkin 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Univ of Mary Hardin-Baylor 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gladwin Pines Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-KS10 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carl Zeiss Vision Inc. - St. Cloud MN 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeland Sam's 122 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.