Acetylene manufacturing · Alabama

HGI Decatur

Decatur, AL · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HGI Decatur runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Acetylene manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

HGI Decatur: 4.0 TCR = 120% of Acetylene manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HGI Decatur safety composite

HGI Decatur scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

HGI Decatur: 0.0 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.39× in 2024

HGI Decatur's TCR rose 9.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 9.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Decatur, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 120% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Linde - Gonzales
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Linde - Gonzales (0.0 TCR gap)

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HGI Decatur in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HGI Decatur averages 4.0 TCR (120% of the Acetylene manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HGI Decatur TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 3.3

Where HGI Decatur falls in its industry

295 Acetylene manufacturing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Acetylene manufacturing employers in Alabama.

HGI Decatur (27 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HGI Decatur
HGI Decatur (27 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

HGI Decatur has fewer employees than the Acetylene manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 9.4 9.4 3 0 0
2023 6.6 3.3 2 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2021 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · AL · Decatur

295 Acetylene manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 239 employers in Decatur, 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 Linde - Gonzales 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde - Cartersville 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kittery 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde - Aiken 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1224-HA-Albertville, AL 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dothan Hatchery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silver Creek Logging Company 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6728-00030023-12 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain - Decatur 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur processing plant 885 FTE
CITY-NEAR ULA-Decatur 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Fresh Plant 671 FTE
NAT-TCR SEM Minerals, L.P. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ron's Supermarket 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gagliarducci Construction. Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Hall Lexington 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE HGI Louisville 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wallingford Store 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE K Drive Greenhouse Co 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Company 27 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, 2017. 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.