Coke, petroleum, made in petroleum refineries · Alabama

Hickman Williams & Co

Birmingham, AL · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickman Williams & Co runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coke, petroleum, made in petroleum refineries workplace, earning a grade D.

Hickman Williams & Co: 4.4 TCR = 134% of Coke, petroleum, made in petroleum refineries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickman Williams & Co safety composite

Hickman Williams & Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Hickman Williams & Co: 0.0 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2020

Hickman Williams & Co's TCR rose 8.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 8.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324110 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Aero Energy
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aero Energy (0.4 TCR gap)

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Hickman Williams & Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickman Williams & Co averages 4.4 TCR (134% of the Coke, petroleum, made in petroleum refineries BLS benchmark).

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

Hickman Williams & Co TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickman Williams & Co falls in its industry

198 Coke, petroleum, made in petro establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Coke, petroleum, made in petro employers in Alabama.

Hickman Williams & Co (22 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5 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 05001,0001,500 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickman Williams & Co
Hickman Williams & Co (22 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 376 employees and a TCR of 0.5

Hickman Williams & Co has fewer employees than the Coke, petroleum, made in petroleum refin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.5. 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 8.9 8.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324110 · AL · Birmingham

198 Coke, petroleum, made in petroleum refineries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, 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 Aero Energy 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Synergy Recycling LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet Biorefining Glenville LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axeon Specialty Products - Paulsboro Refinery 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Breeder/Broiler 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden Alabama 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.A.D.H. GIN, INC. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Logan Martin Dam 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR DLB Enterprises 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Volunteer Behavioral Health Care Services-Cookeville Plateau 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Siemers Holstein Farm, Inc. - Main Farm 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0008 SANFORD 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3HL1 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayer Electric Supply Company, Inc. - North Cobb 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milford Operation 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tuttles Nursery and Landscape INC 22 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, 2019. 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.