Ductile iron foundries · Alabama

Franklin Iron Works, Inc

Thorsby, AL · ~76 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franklin Iron Works, Inc runs at 444% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ductile iron foundries workplace, earning a grade F.

Franklin Iron Works, Inc: 14.7 TCR = 444% of Ductile iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franklin Iron Works, Inc safety composite

Franklin Iron Works, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Franklin Iron Works, Inc: 10.2 → 17.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 21.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2021

Franklin Iron Works, Inc's TCR rose 7.3 from 10.2 in 2016 to 17.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 21.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Thorsby, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.7 · 444% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #18/18
  • PHOTO Dotson Company
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dotson Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Franklin Iron Works, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franklin Iron Works, Inc averages 14.7 TCR (444% of the Ductile iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Franklin Iron Works, Inc TCR series: 2016=10.2 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=18.4 · 2020=21.9 · 2021=17.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Franklin Iron Works, Inc falls in its industry

272 Ductile iron foundries establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 18 Ductile iron foundries employers in Alabama.

Franklin Iron Works, Inc (76 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Franklin Iron Works, Inc
Franklin Iron Works, Inc (76 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Franklin Iron Works, Inc has fewer employees than the Ductile iron foundries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2021 17.4 7.5 13 1 0
2020 21.9 5.8 19 0 0
2019 18.4 6.9 16 0 0
2018 10.6 2.1 9 1 0
2017 9.5 4.7 8 0 0
2016 10.2 6.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · AL · Thorsby

272 Ductile iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 3 employers in Thorsby, 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 Dotson Company 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHEMCO-Ohio Foundry Inc. 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCF Milwaukee Plant 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLYMOUTH FOUNDRY, INC 14.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Birmingham Division 6th Street Office 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sand Mountain Electric Cooperative 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Location 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roofcare Service Center, LLC 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thorsby EWP - WP 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR FRANKLIN IRON LLC 72 FTE
NAT-TCR Recreation Investments of Florida 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CMI Enterprises North Carolina 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4765-PBICW9665 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 252501-Det-Brightmoor Sta 14.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vitrolife, Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #638 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Installed Building Products #695 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpine-Menomonee Falls #276 76 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.