Industrial gases manufacturing · Alabama

Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704

Gadsden, AL · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704 runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial gases manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Industrial gases manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704 safety composite

Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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, INC. Gadsden, Al #704: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 4.96× in 2024

Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO Praxair Inc. Stocker…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Praxair Inc. Stockertown, PA #996 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704 averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Industrial gases manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704 TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704 falls in its industry

295 Industrial gases manufacturing establishments

Safer than 90% 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 #1 safest of 10 Industrial gases manufacturing employers in Alabama.

Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704 (30 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704
Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704 (30 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Linde, INC. Gadsden, Al #704 has fewer employees than the Industrial gases manufacturing 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
2024 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · AL · Gadsden

295 Industrial gases manufacturing 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 Praxair Inc. Stockertown, PA #996 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde Inc. Ecorse Plant 719 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde - HYCO Laporte 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otis 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE PDSI 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkmont GP Hatchery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albertville Hatchery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sowega Cotton Gin & Warehouse, LLC Hartford 30 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 North Campus 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AZCO INC. - Short Term Projects 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Daily Journal 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fit Tight Covers 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross Matthew INC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Borate Company - Chesapeake, VA 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE albany terminal 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seneca SC Yard 30 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.