Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing · Alabama

Process Barron plant 2

Birmingham, AL · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Process Barron plant 2 runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Process Barron plant 2: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Process Barron plant 2 safety composite

Process Barron plant 2 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Process Barron plant 2: 1.6 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2017

Process Barron plant 2's TCR rose 5.8 from 1.6 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333413 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO 311 Riggs Street
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 311 Riggs Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Process Barron plant 2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Process Barron plant 2 averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Process Barron plant 2 TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Process Barron plant 2 falls in its industry

232 Air purification equipment, st establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 5 Air purification equipment, st employers in Alabama.

Process Barron plant 2 (58 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Process Barron plant 2
Process Barron plant 2 (58 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Process Barron plant 2 has fewer employees than the Air purification equipment, stationary, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2017 7.5 1.9 4 0 0
2016 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333413 · AL · Birmingham

232 Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, 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 311 Riggs Street 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henderson Engineering Co., INC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carnes Company 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Technos, Inc. Manufacturing 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fair Knoll Hatchery 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Operations Center 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Professional Building Services 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105176 - Enviva Wood Pellet Plant EPC Epes, AL 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of California Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0193 - Pasadena, Tx 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR P3 - Stroudsburg 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Coremark Denver 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Assisted Living Facility 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schluter Systems - Reno 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Malden N and R LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa 58 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: 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.