Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe · Alabama

Ford Meter Box

Pell City, AL · ~161 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ford Meter Box runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe workplace, earning a grade C.

Ford Meter Box: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ford Meter Box safety composite

Ford Meter Box scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Ford Meter Box: 1.9 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2023

Ford Meter Box's TCR rose 2.0 from 1.9 in 2021 to 3.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332996 · Pell City, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Carpenter & Paterson…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carpenter & Paterson Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ford Meter Box in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ford Meter Box averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe BLS benchmark).

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

Ford Meter Box TCR series: 2021=1.9 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Ford Meter Box falls in its industry

337 Fabricated pipe and pipe fitti establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Fabricated pipe and pipe fitti employers in Alabama.

Ford Meter Box (161 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ford Meter Box
Ford Meter Box (161 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ford Meter Box has more employees than the Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made f median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023 3.9 2.6 6 0 0
2022 3.9 2.2 7 0 0
2021 1.9 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332996 · AL · Pell City

337 Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 44 employers in Pell City, 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 Carpenter & Paterson Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Constellation Industries (Weedy) 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canton 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EPC-Fayetteville 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Plant 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landers McLarty Dodge Chrysler Jeep Fiat (Huntsville AL) 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 0573 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2816 - Madison 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eissmann Group Automotive 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR WKW Erbsloeh North America, LLC 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Col Robert L Howard 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5113 348 FTE
NAT-TCR 100830 Apg Del Dc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Walter R Dorn Estate Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Armor Metal 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FMS 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Cajun II 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hp Hood LLC 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier at Susquehanna 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Providence Place 161 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.