Engineering research and development laboratories or services · Alabama

Huntsville Lab

Huntsville, AL · ~153 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Huntsville Lab runs at 480% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Engineering research and development laboratories or services workplace, earning a grade F.

Huntsville Lab: 2.4 TCR = 480% of Engineering research and development laboratories or services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Huntsville Lab safety composite

Huntsville Lab scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.2

2016→2017

Huntsville Lab injury rate improved

Huntsville Lab's TCR fell 1.2 from 3.0 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.0 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541712 · Huntsville, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 2.4 · 480% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Littelfuse, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Littelfuse, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Huntsville Lab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Huntsville Lab averages 2.4 TCR (480% of the Engineering research and development laboratories or services BLS benchmark).

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

Huntsville Lab TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=1.8 · BLS 0.5

Where Huntsville Lab falls in its industry

319 Engineering research and devel establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

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 8 Engineering research and devel employers in Alabama.

Huntsville Lab (153 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Huntsville Lab
Huntsville Lab (153 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8

Huntsville Lab has fewer employees than the Engineering research and development lab median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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
2017 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2016 3.0 2.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541712 · AL · Huntsville

319 Engineering research and development laboratories or services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 454 employers in Huntsville, 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 Littelfuse, Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abon Pharmaceuticals 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clinical Research 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit Lab 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hubbard and Drake 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE W S Newell & Sons Inc 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at IVXP LLC Decatur AL 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barber - Birmingham 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR AL004 2,929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dynetics A Leidos Company 2,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leidos - Dynetics 2,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Motor Mfg of Alabama 1,874 FTE
NAT-TCR 0269 - Winterville, Nc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0061 - Longview, Tx 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0034 - Lakewood, Ca 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Save A Lot 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Republic Services: Charleston Hauling 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bernard Horwich Building 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAPP Columbia 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Pines Center (Ncsou) 153 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: 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.