Bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing · Alabama

Production Automation Inc.

Montgomery, AL · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Production Automation Inc. runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Production Automation Inc.: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Production Automation Inc. safety composite

Production Automation Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.0

2017→2024

Production Automation Inc. injury rate improved

Production Automation Inc.'s TCR fell 6.0 from 9.2 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333993 · Montgomery, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Pace Packaging
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pace Packaging (0.1 TCR gap)

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Production Automation Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Production Automation Inc. averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Production Automation Inc. TCR series: 2017=9.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Production Automation Inc. falls in its industry

269 Bottle washers, packaging mach establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Bottle washers, packaging mach employers in Alabama.

Production Automation Inc. (59 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Production Automation Inc.
Production Automation Inc. (59 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Production Automation Inc. has fewer employees than the Bottle washers, packaging machinery, man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 9.2 7.7 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333993 · AL · Montgomery

269 Bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 420 employers in Montgomery, 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 Pace Packaging 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highlight Industries 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterling Contract Packaging, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ID Technology-GA 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE COTTAGE HILL NURSERY, INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshall Dekalb Electric Coop 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Birmingham Division Varnons Crew Headquarters 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Construction & Maintenance, Inc. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, LLC 3,611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Medical Center South 2,392 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jackson Hospital & Clinic 2,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montgomery 1,561 FTE
NAT-TCR Forest Hill Heights LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Living Concepts, Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lindenwold 10538 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unilock New York, Inc. Boston Division 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snyder Manufacturing Inc. 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dakota Blenders 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fay Industries 59 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, 2023, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.