Telecommunications · Alabama

SC300 - Birmingham

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

F
Failing Safety Record
16.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SC300 - Birmingham runs at 572% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade F.

SC300 - Birmingham: 16.0 TCR = 572% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SC300 - Birmingham safety composite

SC300 - Birmingham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 31.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

SC300 - Birmingham: 4.3 → 31.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 31.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.97× in 2018

SC300 - Birmingham's TCR rose 27.2 from 4.3 in 2016 to 31.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Pelham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.0 · 572% of ind

  • DART 31.6 DART
  • RANK #30/30
  • PHOTO 462
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 462 (0.1 TCR gap)

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SC300 - Birmingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SC300 - Birmingham averages 16.0 TCR (572% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

SC300 - Birmingham TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=12.1 · 2018=31.6 · BLS 2.8

Where SC300 - Birmingham falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 30 Telecommunications employers in Alabama.

SC300 - Birmingham (59 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 SC300 - Birmingham
SC300 - Birmingham (59 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

SC300 - Birmingham has fewer employees than the Telecommunications median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 31.6 31.6 2 0 0
2017 12.1 12.1 8 0 0
2016 4.3 4.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · AL · Pelham

1,605 Telecommunications employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 75 employers in Pelham, 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 462 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TMEL2 - Elko, MN 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-1 Power, LLC 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Cable Construction, Inc. 16.4 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 Process Equipment, Inc. South Field Services 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pace Runners, Inc. 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5262 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summer Classics 290 FTE
NAT-TCR Emery, Pittston 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Palm Center 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Office 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Manatawny Manor 16.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Legends - Ascend Amphitheater 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oldcastle OPI - Telford 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Save - Koloa 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ritter Communications - Millington 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: 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.