Blade sharpening, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment · Alabama

Process Barron

Pelham, AL · ~210 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Process Barron runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Blade sharpening, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment workplace, earning a grade A.

Process Barron: 0.7 TCR = 33% of Blade sharpening, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Process Barron safety composite

Process Barron scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Process Barron held a steady TCR band

Process Barron's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.7 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Pelham, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #5/56
  • PHOTO Alta Enterprises LLC…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~210 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alta Enterprises LLC- Byron Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Process Barron in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Process Barron averages 0.7 TCR (33% of the Blade sharpening, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment BLS benchmark).

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

Process Barron TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=0 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=0.6 · BLS 2.1

Where Process Barron falls in its industry

2,560 Blade sharpening, commercial a establishments

Safer than 93% 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 #5 safest of 56 Blade sharpening, commercial a employers in Alabama.

Process Barron (210 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Process Barron
Process Barron (210 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Process Barron has more employees than the Blade sharpening, commercial and industr median and a lower 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
2021 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2020 1.5 0.8 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · AL · Pelham

2,560 Blade sharpening, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 75 employers in Pelham, 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 Alta Enterprises LLC- Byron Center 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dresser-Rand Los Angeles Service Center 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mauser Packaging Solutions - Houston Reco IBC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NYFR Americold 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE I-59/20 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE S&S Sprinkler Company LLC 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lenzing Fibers Inc. 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monarch Ceramic Tile, Inc 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Process Equipment, Inc. South Field Services 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pace Runners, Inc. 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5262 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summer Classics 290 FTE
NAT-TCR Hardings Markets 949 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DAL 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR California Pacific Medical Center (274-CC-BRN) 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmington Ready Mix 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trulite W74 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE BERRYFRIN 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 7 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Mead Health and Rehabilitation Center 210 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: 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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