Employer · Alabama

Saltwell Chip Mill

Demopolis, AL · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saltwell Chip Mill runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Saltwell Chip Mill: 2.0 TCR = 62% of industry BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saltwell Chip Mill safety composite

Saltwell Chip Mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

Saltwell Chip Mill held a steady TCR band

Saltwell Chip Mill's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Demopolis, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/15
  • PHOTO 3701 Covington Mill
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3701 Covington Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saltwell Chip Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saltwell Chip Mill averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Saltwell Chip Mill TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Saltwell Chip Mill falls in its industry

181 industry establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 industry employers in Alabama.

Saltwell Chip Mill (27 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Saltwell Chip Mill
Saltwell Chip Mill (27 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Saltwell Chip Mill has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.1 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · AL · Demopolis

181 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 30 employers in Demopolis, 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 3701 Covington Mill 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Gypsum Oakfield 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1224-HA-Albertville, AL 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dothan Hatchery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silver Creek Logging Company 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6728-00030023-12 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR DANA TRANSPORT INC. -DIVISION 2 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR Demopolis Mill 460 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3600 Demopolis Mill 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Demopolis Corndog Plant 347 FTE
NAT-TCR Ricky's 72nd Street 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial SNF, LP D/B/A Colonial Pines 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 30206-Capstone Delhaize Greencastle Pa 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR JSTGrocers LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alliance Health Durant 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Circle Transportation Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Youngstown Location 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location #1 27 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: 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.