Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing · Alabama

Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant

Nw Ft. Payne, AL · ~587 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing workplace, earning a grade D.

Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant: 5.3 TCR = 161% of Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant safety composite

Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.3

2016→2024

Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant injury rate improved

Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant's TCR fell 5.3 from 10.1 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.1 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=6.5 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315110 · Nw Ft. Payne, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO Darn Tough VT
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 197 inj
  • SIZE ~587 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darn Tough VT (1.1 TCR gap)

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Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant averages 5.3 TCR (161% of the Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing BLS benchmark).

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

Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant TCR series: 2016=10.1 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=6.5 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant falls in its industry

25 Athletic socks, knitting or kn establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant (587 employees, TCR 5.3) among 19 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 20 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 Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant
Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant (587 employees, TCR 5.3) among 19 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant has more employees than the Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 4.8 3.0 21 3 0
2023 6.1 2.1 18 17 0
2022 4.7 1.4 24 3 0
2021 1.9 1.8 11 1 0
2020 3.5 2.7 23 0 0
2018 6.5 4.1 36 1 0
2017 4.8 3.5 24 5 0
2016 10.1 7.2 40 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315110 · AL · Nw Ft. Payne

25 Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 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 Darn Tough VT 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catawba Sox 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 3 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairfield 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Satellites Unlimited, LLC 587 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur West 586 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kimberly-Clark Mobile Mill 588 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4701-722 589 FTE
NAT-TCR Windsor Mission Oaks 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Erich Rental Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AdventHealth Connerton 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fallsburg Lumber Co Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Finch Paper 587 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Office 587 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toledo Store 587 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meyer Tool, Inc. 587 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.