General rental centers · Alabama

Shaffer Sports & Events

Irondale, AL · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shaffer Sports & Events runs at 431% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General rental centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Shaffer Sports & Events: 6.0 TCR = 431% of General rental centers BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shaffer Sports & Events safety composite

Shaffer Sports & Events scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

−3.5

2017→2018

Shaffer Sports & Events injury rate improved

Shaffer Sports & Events's TCR fell 3.5 from 7.8 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.8 · 2018=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 532310 · Irondale, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 431% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK P44
  • PHOTO BARRICADE FLASHER SE…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BARRICADE FLASHER SERVICE INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shaffer Sports & Events in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shaffer Sports & Events averages 6.0 TCR (431% of the General rental centers BLS benchmark).

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

Shaffer Sports & Events TCR series: 2017=7.8 · 2018=4.3 · BLS 1.4

Where Shaffer Sports & Events falls in its industry

98 General rental centers establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Shaffer Sports & Events (200 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Shaffer Sports & Events
Shaffer Sports & Events (200 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Shaffer Sports & Events has more employees than the General rental centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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 4.3 4.3 12 0 0
2017 7.8 4.9 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

532310 · AL · Irondale

98 General rental centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 33 employers in Irondale, 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 BARRICADE FLASHER SERVICE INC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2964-00182 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BB BHF STORES, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Display Installations, LLC. 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thermal Insulation Inc 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vertex Refining Alabama LLC 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marvel City Mini Mill 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE 026-00677 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electrical 625 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marathon Electrical Contractors, LLC 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wood Fruitticher Corporate 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morris-Shea Bridge Co. Inc 340 FTE
NAT-TCR Penske : 4383-00 GM-CCA/Flint, MI 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of Odessa LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Caribbean Fire & Associates, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tfrirv-Tfr-Tfr - Irving 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owens-Illinois Glass Portland N21 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - ME 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE PepsiCo DC 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Muncie Power Products, Inc. Mfg Div 200 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. 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.