Steel merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Jemison Metals - Gadsden

Gadsden, AL · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jemison Metals - Gadsden runs at 536% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Jemison Metals - Gadsden: 11.8 TCR = 536% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jemison Metals - Gadsden safety composite

Jemison Metals - Gadsden scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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 11.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2022→2023

Jemison Metals - Gadsden injury rate improved

Jemison Metals - Gadsden's TCR fell 4.3 from 13.9 in 2022 to 9.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=13.9 · 2023=9.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Gadsden, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.8 · 536% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #40/44
  • PHOTO Benjamin Steel Co-Lima
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Benjamin Steel Co-Lima (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jemison Metals - Gadsden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jemison Metals - Gadsden averages 11.8 TCR (536% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Jemison Metals - Gadsden TCR series: 2022=13.9 · 2023=9.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Jemison Metals - Gadsden falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 44 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Alabama.

Jemison Metals - Gadsden (38 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Jemison Metals - Gadsden
Jemison Metals - Gadsden (38 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Jemison Metals - Gadsden has fewer employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 9.6 9.6 4 0 0
2022 13.9 13.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · AL · Gadsden

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 82 employers in Gadsden, 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 Benjamin Steel Co-Lima 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Special Metals, Inc. 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Metal Supply Newark 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Performance Metals - CHI 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milstead Farm Group, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Division Selma Office 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eufaula State Docks Road Complex 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mobile Division Schillingers Road 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Gadsden Alabama 1,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gadsden Regional Medical Center 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant 1,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Plant 850 FTE
NAT-TCR AZZ Galvanizing - Denver 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BW Lehigh Associates, LLC 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Olmar Supply INC 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR General Metals Mfg & Supply Co 11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buffalo Welding, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prest-O-Fit Manufacturing, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sarasota- CF 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE De2 - Environmental Quality (Hd) 38 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, 2022. 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.