Wood Preservation · Alabama

Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals

Tuscumbia, AL · ~73 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wood Preservation workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals: 5.0 TCR = 153% of Wood Preservation BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals safety composite

Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals: 1.7 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2024

Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals's TCR rose 5.5 from 1.7 in 2018 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Tuscumbia, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #12/22
  • PHOTO Cameron
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cameron (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals averages 5.0 TCR (153% of the Wood Preservation BLS benchmark).

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

Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=6 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals falls in its industry

183 Wood Preservation establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 22 Wood Preservation employers in Alabama.

Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals (73 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals
Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals (73 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Great Southern Wood - Muscle Shoals has more employees than the Wood Preservation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2024 7.2 7.2 6 0 0
2023 6.0 4.8 4 1 0
2022 3.9 2.6 3 0 0
2021 4.3 1.4 3 0 0
2020 7.2 1.4 5 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · AL · Tuscumbia

183 Wood Preservation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 34 employers in Tuscumbia, 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 Cameron 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WA Washougal AWW 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koppers Susquehanna 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitmire 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GGP Hatchery/Egg Depot (Elkmont) 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trussville Crew Headquarters 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trussville Crew Headquarters - APC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE KBB Electrical Contractors LLC 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flexco 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muscle Shoals 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muscle Shoals (BP) 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR McVantage Packaging - Tuscumbia 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Desert Cove 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1603 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Larry Green Chevrolet 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 10478 Tallahassee 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Southern Wood - Conyers 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arbors at Pomeroy 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheffield Family Health Center 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE 971-NiSource-Toledo OH-Op Ctr Manhattan Blv 73 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.