Plumbers · Alabama

Ponder Plumbing

Sylacauga, AL · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ponder Plumbing runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Plumbers workplace, earning a grade A.

Ponder Plumbing: 0.9 TCR = 34% of Plumbers BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ponder Plumbing safety composite

Ponder Plumbing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Ponder Plumbing held a steady TCR band

Ponder Plumbing's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Sylacauga, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/85
  • PHOTO Dynamic Heating and …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dynamic Heating and Piping Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ponder Plumbing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ponder Plumbing averages 0.9 TCR (34% of the Plumbers BLS benchmark).

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

Ponder Plumbing TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Ponder Plumbing falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbers establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 85 Plumbers employers in Alabama.

Ponder Plumbing (22 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ponder Plumbing
Ponder Plumbing (22 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ponder Plumbing has fewer employees than the Plumbers 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · AL · Sylacauga

5,793 Plumbers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 43 employers in Sylacauga, 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 Dynamic Heating and Piping Company 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vadakin Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warren Systems Inc 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Power Systems 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Breeder/Broiler 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden Alabama 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.A.D.H. GIN, INC. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Logan Martin Dam 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nemak Alabama 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coosa Valley Medical Center 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sylacauga 52 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 730 311 FTE
NAT-TCR Allegheny Surveys, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ford Construction Company, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Birla Carbon USA Hickok Plant 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Renaissance House, Inc. Tiffn Ohio 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Cottages on Golden Pond 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kryler Corporation 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Four Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Ohio Forklifts 22 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.