Iron foundries · Georgia

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele))

Cordele, GA · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Iron foundries workplace, earning a grade D.

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)): 5.4 TCR = 164% of Iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) safety composite

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.9

2023→2024

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) injury rate improved

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele))'s TCR fell 4.9 from 7.9 in 2023 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.9 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Cordele, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Ellwood Engineered C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ellwood Engineered Castings (0.0 TCR gap)

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Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) TCR series: 2023=7.9 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) falls in its industry

272 Iron foundries establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Iron foundries employers in Georgia.

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) (80 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele))
Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) (80 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Cordele)) has fewer employees than the Iron foundries median and a lower 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
2024 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2023 7.9 5.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · GA · Cordele

272 Iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 49 employers in Cordele, GA · 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 Ellwood Engineered Castings 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tyler Pipe Company-Texas 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR EJ - Ardmore Foundry 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Xenia Foundry 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dawson GP Shelling Plant 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olam Americas Shelling 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE SRS Main 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE 227 - ATLANTA FIRE 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crisp Regional Hospital 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1006 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marvair 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1006 290 FTE
NAT-TCR Stewart & Tate Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Innovative Fire Protection, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SAK Builders 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Honeybear Growers LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ashby Public School 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shaffey Logistics 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luckinbill Construction Company LLC. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Many Mansions 80 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: 2024, 2023. 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.