Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade · Alabama

LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant

Birmingham, AL · ~90 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant: 0.7 TCR = 22% of Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant safety composite

LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−0.7

2016→2019

LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant injury rate improved

LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant's TCR fell 0.7 from 1.4 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Birmingham, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/22
  • PHOTO Sheffield
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sheffield (0.0 TCR gap)

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LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant falls in its industry

646 Powder coating metals and meta establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 22 Powder coating metals and meta employers in Alabama.

LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant (90 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant
LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant (90 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

LB Foster Birmingham Coating Plant has more employees than the Powder coating metals and metal products median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2019 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · AL · Birmingham

646 Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade 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 Sheffield 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blastco Texas Inc 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde North Haven 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fusion Inc. 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Auburn Electrical Construction Co., Inc. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE BM6 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buffalo Rock Tuscaloosa 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clayton Tiny Homes 90 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 SeaWorld Corporate 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR City Hall-CM 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Sportservice, LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AMEREN MISSOURI - Substations - North 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lyon Roofing 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tokyo Central West Covina 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ach Mercy Hospital - Corning 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Village at Legacy Pointe 90 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: 2019, 2018, 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.