John Deere Equipment Dealer · Alabama

Fort Payne AL

Fort Payne, AL · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Payne AL runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical John Deere Equipment Dealer workplace, earning a grade D.

Fort Payne AL: 3.6 TCR = 162% of John Deere Equipment Dealer BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Payne AL safety composite

Fort Payne AL scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−7.1

2017→2020

Fort Payne AL injury rate improved

Fort Payne AL's TCR fell 7.1 from 7.1 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.1 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Fort Payne, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 162% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO SunSouth Demopolis
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SunSouth Demopolis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fort Payne AL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Payne AL averages 3.6 TCR (162% of the John Deere Equipment Dealer BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Payne AL TCR series: 2017=7.1 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Fort Payne AL falls in its industry

700 John Deere Equipment Dealer establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 John Deere Equipment Dealer employers in Alabama.

Fort Payne AL (93 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fort Payne AL
Fort Payne AL (93 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Fort Payne AL has more employees than the John Deere Equipment Dealer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.1 6.5 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · AL · Fort Payne

700 John Deere Equipment Dealer 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR SunSouth Demopolis 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR H & R Agripower - Vergennes 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HTI - LAMAR 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TNE - Kennedy 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE B.H. Craig Construction Co., Inc. 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE RDA Services Company 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newellroadbuilders, Inc. 93 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 Nationwide Boiler, Inc. - Fremont 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tohono Oddham Utility Authority 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Good Samaritan Medical Center 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 2573-FL055 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Fountains 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Level & Tool Mequon 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpha Packaging 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1095 East 45th St 93 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: 2020, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.