Construction Machinery Manufacturing · Alabama

Southern

Birmingham, AL · ~458 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Construction Machinery Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Southern: 2.1 TCR = 64% of Construction Machinery Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern safety composite

Southern 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2017→2024

Southern injury rate improved

Southern's TCR fell 2.3 from 2.5 in 2017 to 0.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333120 · Birmingham, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 64% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Astec Rossville
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~458 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Astec Rossville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern averages 2.1 TCR (64% of the Construction Machinery Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=3 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=2 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern falls in its industry

400 Construction Machinery Manufac establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Construction Machinery Manufac employers in Alabama.

Southern (458 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 Southern
Southern (458 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Southern has more employees than the Construction Machinery Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2024 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.8 1.5 8 0 0
2022 2.0 1.3 9 0 0
2021 2.3 1.6 11 0 0
2020 3.0 2.5 13 0 0
2019 2.1 1.7 11 0 0
2018 3.1 2.3 18 0 0
2017 2.5 1.4 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333120 · AL · Birmingham

400 Construction Machinery 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 Astec Rossville 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doosan STA 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gradall Industries, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Astec Industries, Yankton 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant 457 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterilite Corporation BHM 457 FTE
STATE-SIZE KTH Leesburg Products LLC 457 FTE
STATE-SIZE AL217 Alabama River Cellulose 460 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 Madelia Elementary 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR S04915 - WM of Pharr 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Burley 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kieffer Bros. Construction Co., Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE BG - Holley Inc. 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Leaf North America/Nash 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trejo Labor Service, LLC 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice Maryland - 0640 458 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.