Knife switches, electric power switchgear-type, manufacturing · Alabama

Royal Switchgear

Bessemer, AL · ~71 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Royal Switchgear runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Knife switches, electric power switchgear-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Royal Switchgear: 7.3 TCR = 223% of Knife switches, electric power switchgear-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Royal Switchgear safety composite

Royal Switchgear scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Royal Switchgear: 0.0 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2020

Royal Switchgear's TCR rose 11.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335313 · Bessemer, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 223% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO ESS Metron LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ESS Metron LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Royal Switchgear in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Royal Switchgear averages 7.3 TCR (223% of the Knife switches, electric power switchgear-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Royal Switchgear TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=10.5 · 2020=11.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Royal Switchgear falls in its industry

226 Knife switches, electric power establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

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 Knife switches, electric power employers in Alabama.

Royal Switchgear (71 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Royal Switchgear
Royal Switchgear (71 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Royal Switchgear has fewer employees than the Knife switches, electric power switchgea median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2020 11.5 6.9 5 5 0
2017 10.5 0.0 8 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335313 · AL · Bessemer

226 Knife switches, electric power switchgear-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 116 employers in Bessemer, 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 ESS Metron LLC 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inertia Engineering 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PBS 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sandy Lake Plant 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE McInnis Construction, LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Petty Line Construction Co Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core Industrial Maintenance 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BHM1 4,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bessemer, DC 768 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blox LLC 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR US PIPE - BHM-DIP 559 FTE
NAT-TCR TCI Hilton Head #769 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Marinemax East, Inc.-Mysd 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0060-Atrium Health Union 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsor Metal Finishing 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sheraton Bellevue 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Office 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Irwin Hospice 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal-Tech Industrial Corp. - a div. of Nor-Tech Industrial Corp. 71 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: 2020, 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.