Annular ball bearings manufacturing · Alabama

SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham

Birmingham, AL · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Annular ball bearings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham: 3.7 TCR = 111% of Annular ball bearings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham safety composite

SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham: 0.0 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2023

SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham's TCR rose 5.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 5.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 111% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK P36
  • PHOTO Industrial Techtonic…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industrial Techtonics Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham averages 3.7 TCR (111% of the Annular ball bearings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham falls in its industry

125 Annular ball bearings manufact establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham (50 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham
SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham (50 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

SKF Solution Factory - Birmingham has fewer employees than the Annular ball bearings manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 5.6 3.8 3 0 0
2022 5.4 3.6 2 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · AL · Birmingham

125 Annular ball bearings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, 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 Industrial Techtonics Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bucyrus 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ILJIN Slewing 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morganton - Burke Drive 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 8600 Live Haul Koch Foods 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patton Chapel Crew Headquarters 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Building LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Odell Brewing Company Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Freehouse 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR C0D07 Huntersville 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawson Industries Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Medicalodges Dewey 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wadesboro Hatchery / Transp 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanger Unified School District Transportation Department 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Davenport Works - DSI 50 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.