Chemical & allied product merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Muscle Shoals

Muscle Shoals, AL · ~18 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Muscle Shoals runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chemical & allied product merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Muscle Shoals: 4.3 TCR = 198% of Chemical & allied product merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Muscle Shoals safety composite

Muscle Shoals scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Muscle Shoals held a steady TCR band

Muscle Shoals's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=11.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=17.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Muscle Shoals, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 198% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Coyne Chemical - Cro…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coyne Chemical - Croydon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Muscle Shoals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Muscle Shoals averages 4.3 TCR (198% of the Chemical & allied product merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Muscle Shoals TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=11.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=17.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Muscle Shoals falls in its industry

766 Chemical & allied product merc establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #6 safest of 7 Chemical & allied product merc employers in Alabama.

Muscle Shoals (18 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Muscle Shoals
Muscle Shoals (18 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Muscle Shoals has fewer employees than the Chemical & allied product merchant whole median and a higher 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 17.1 11.4 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 0 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 11.6 11.6 2 0 0
2017 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · AL · Muscle Shoals

766 Chemical & allied product merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 63 employers in Muscle Shoals, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Coyne Chemical - Croydon 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thermo Fisher Scientific - Bridgewater 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canton 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bettendorf Branch 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cullman Hatchery 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frank Currie Gin company 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kelley Brothers Contractors Berry 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant McIntosh 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Lighting - Muscle Shoals 1,616 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAL MUSCLE SHOALS PLANT 1,610 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Lighting - Alabama 1,488 FTE
CITY-NEAR Constellium Muscle Shoals LLC - Alloys Operations 1,113 FTE
NAT-TCR IAA 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Excel Truck Group Weyers Cave 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bassett Upholstery 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 3975 Township Line Road 4.3 TCR

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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.