Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services · Alaska

Southern Specialty Service

Star City, AK · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Specialty Service runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade B.

Southern Specialty Service: 1.5 TCR = 70% of Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Specialty Service safety composite

Southern Specialty Service scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−1.5

2016→2018

Southern Specialty Service injury rate improved

Southern Specialty Service's TCR fell 1.5 from 1.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Star City, AK AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Turlock
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Turlock (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Specialty Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Specialty Service averages 1.5 TCR (70% of the Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Specialty Service TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Southern Specialty Service falls in its industry

2,560 Paper making machinery repair establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Paper making machinery repair employers in Alaska.

Southern Specialty Service (56 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Specialty Service
Southern Specialty Service (56 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Southern Specialty Service has more employees than the Paper making machinery repair and mainte median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.9 1.4 2 0 0
2016 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · AK · Star City

2,560 Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 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 Turlock 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tilley Pressure Test FTX1 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryder Albany 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walco Electric Company 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Samson Electric Anchorage 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ketchikan Alaska CS 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE MATSON NAVIGATION COMPANY OF ALASKA LLC KODIAK 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tram-AK 56 FTE
NAT-TCR Canfield & Tack 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rittiner Equipment 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Market Place Location 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Uge Mem 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 7100501 - ALT Olympus Alexandria 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watson Refrigeration, Inc 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - OW 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prestonsburg (Kypre) 56 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.