Trash and garbage compactors, commercial-type, manufacturing · Alabama

Marathon Equipment - Vernon

Vernon, AL · ~258 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Marathon Equipment - Vernon runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trash and garbage compactors, commercial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Marathon Equipment - Vernon: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Trash and garbage compactors, commercial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Marathon Equipment - Vernon safety composite

Marathon Equipment - Vernon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Marathon Equipment - Vernon: 1.5 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2024

Marathon Equipment - Vernon's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.5 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Vernon, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO BUNN - Stevenson Drive
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BUNN - Stevenson Drive (0.0 TCR gap)

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Marathon Equipment - Vernon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Marathon Equipment - Vernon averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Trash and garbage compactors, commercial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Marathon Equipment - Vernon TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=4 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=2 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Marathon Equipment - Vernon falls in its industry

361 Trash and garbage compactors, establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Trash and garbage compactors, employers in Alabama.

Marathon Equipment - Vernon (258 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Marathon Equipment - Vernon
Marathon Equipment - Vernon (258 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Marathon Equipment - Vernon has more employees than the Trash and garbage compactors, commercial median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2024 3.4 2.0 10 0 0
2023 2.1 0.7 6 0 0
2022 1.9 1.1 5 0 0
2021 2.8 1.6 7 0 0
2020 2.0 1.2 5 0 0
2019 4.1 2.0 12 0 0
2018 4.0 1.4 7 4 0
2017 3.6 2.9 10 0 0
2016 1.5 0.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · AL · Vernon

361 Trash and garbage compactors, commercial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 7 employers in Vernon, 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 BUNN - Stevenson Drive 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nicholson Manufacturing, Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pellerin Milnor 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Philadelphia 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE KW Plastics - Recycling Divison 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1620 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE 733 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Topgolf Birmingham 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Generations Of Vernon 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Milling Company, Inc. 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR ROOFMART 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR 22714 STORE 22714 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Composidie, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cynthiana 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 61 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR N117W18607 Fulton Dr 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Technology Development Center 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allentown 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tampa 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnie Hamilton Health System 258 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.