Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing · Alabama

Linde - Cherokee

Cherokee, AL · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Linde - Cherokee runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Linde - Cherokee: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Linde - Cherokee safety composite

Linde - Cherokee scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Linde - Cherokee: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2018

Linde - Cherokee's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Cherokee, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Air Products and Che…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Terminal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Linde - Cherokee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Linde - Cherokee averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Linde - Cherokee TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Linde - Cherokee falls in its industry

295 Gases, industrial (i.e., compr establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Gases, industrial (i.e., compr employers in Alabama.

Linde - Cherokee (24 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Linde - Cherokee
Linde - Cherokee (24 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Linde - Cherokee has fewer employees than the Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liq median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2018 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · AL · Cherokee

295 Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 8 employers in Cherokee, 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 Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Bethlehem Terminal 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hudson Champaign 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgantown 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Materials - Pueblo 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Young's Plant Farm, Inc. (Farm 1) 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherokee Gin & Cotton Company 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snead Growout 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Energy Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR FreightCar America 842 FTE
CITY-NEAR FreightCar Alabama, LLC 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essity Professional Hygiene Barton 498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essity Professional Hygiene 481 FTE
NAT-TCR Delta Unibus Division (DUB) 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CTC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bemis North America - Fremont 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Britco USA 1 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 993 Miami DC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smeal Fire Apparatus Neligh 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roses 392 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE KFC-Mililani #033 24 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.