Aluminum ladders manufacturing · Georgia

HWS USA Elberton

Elberton, GA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HWS USA Elberton runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum ladders manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

HWS USA Elberton: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Aluminum ladders manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HWS USA Elberton safety composite

HWS USA Elberton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

HWS USA Elberton: 0.0 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

HWS USA Elberton's TCR rose 11.1 from 0.0 in 2021 to 11.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Elberton, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #12/17
  • PHOTO Federal Hose Mfg LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Federal Hose Mfg LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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HWS USA Elberton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HWS USA Elberton averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Aluminum ladders manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HWS USA Elberton TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=11.1 · BLS 3.3

Where HWS USA Elberton falls in its industry

827 Aluminum ladders manufacturing establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 17 Aluminum ladders manufacturing employers in Georgia.

HWS USA Elberton (23 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate HWS USA Elberton
HWS USA Elberton (23 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

HWS USA Elberton has fewer employees than the Aluminum ladders manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 11.1 11.1 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · GA · Elberton

827 Aluminum ladders manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 27 employers in Elberton, 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 Federal Hose Mfg LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cloacina LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-Cities Manufacturing, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2716_5159 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Canon Pullet 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clermont Hatchery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROSSMAN APIARIES LLC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrims Pride Elberton 407 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrims Elberton GA 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elbert Memorial Hospital 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR STAR GRANITE CO INC 168 FTE
NAT-TCR Gainesville Health Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a Renaissance Care Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NKU Norse Commons* 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR WEL-Life at Elk Point 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-025-Muncie ( RK-025 ) 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE So Cal Livehaul Belgravia 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veritiv Operating Company - KS023 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alexandria LA FXFE-ALX 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Station 6 23 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: 2023, 2021. 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.