Retail Hardware Stores · Alabama

Fort Payne, Al #03266

Fort Payne, AL · ~17 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Payne, Al #03266 runs at 448% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Fort Payne, Al #03266: 15.2 TCR = 448% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Payne, Al #03266 safety composite

Fort Payne, Al #03266 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−14.7

2021→2023

Fort Payne, Al #03266 injury rate improved

Fort Payne, Al #03266's TCR fell 14.7 from 25.1 in 2021 to 10.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 25.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=25.1 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=10.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Fort Payne, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.2 · 448% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #32/33
  • PHOTO 0219 - ROTHSCHILD, WI
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0219 - ROTHSCHILD, WI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fort Payne, Al #03266 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Payne, Al #03266 averages 15.2 TCR (448% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Payne, Al #03266 TCR series: 2021=25.1 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=10.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Fort Payne, Al #03266 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 33 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Alabama.

Fort Payne, Al #03266 (17 employees, TCR 15.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Fort Payne, Al #03266
Fort Payne, Al #03266 (17 employees, TCR 15.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Fort Payne, Al #03266 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 10.3 10.3 1 0 0
2022 10.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 25.1 12.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · AL · Fort Payne

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 39 employers in Fort Payne, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 0219 - ROTHSCHILD, WI 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0330 - MISSOULA, MT 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0720 - QUAKERTOWN, PA 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0406 - SOUTHAVEN, MS 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DANFORD FARMS 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Covington Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Enterprise Office 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bartletts Ferry Dam 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE 294 - Village Creek WWTP Improvements 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heil Environmental 869 FTE
CITY-NEAR PlayCore Wisconsin, Inc., dba GameTime 446 FTE
CITY-NEAR PlayCore 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 691 383 FTE
NAT-TCR Waycross Health and Rehabilitation 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vinpak 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR West Haven Police 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00393 15.2 TCR

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.