Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing · Alabama

PlayCore

Fort Payne, AL · ~386 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PlayCore runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

PlayCore: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PlayCore safety composite

PlayCore scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

PlayCore: 0.9 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2020

PlayCore's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.9 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339920 · Fort Payne, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P77
  • PHOTO Cascade Designs INC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~386 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cascade Designs INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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PlayCore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PlayCore averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PlayCore TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=3 · 2020=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where PlayCore falls in its industry

197 Athletic goods (except ammunit establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
PlayCore (386 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate PlayCore
PlayCore (386 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.3

PlayCore has more employees than the Athletic goods (except ammunition, cloth median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2020 1.8 1.0 6 1 0
2019 3.0 1.4 13 0 0
2018 1.7 0.7 7 0 0
2017 2.3 0.8 8 0 0
2016 0.9 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339920 · AL · Fort Payne

197 Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 39 employers in Fort Payne, 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 Cascade Designs INC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gear Aid, INC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precor NC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kent Water Sports, LLC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 287 386 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hubbell Power Systems, Inc 385 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US AL Troy Airport Blvd (5209) 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE Generation Fossil Miller Steam Plant 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heil Environmental 869 FTE
CITY-NEAR PlayCore Wisconsin, Inc., dba GameTime 446 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 691 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR 691 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Merit Health Biloxi 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Magnus Hitech Ind. Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Harts Habor Health Care Center 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CCI:CC006 - CC006-South Valley-Fresno, CA 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE DMS Clinton 386 FTE
NAT-SIZE SLS Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Beverly Hills 386 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer 226 386 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN,THIEF RIVER FALLS - Downtown Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 386 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: 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.