Materials handling equipment repair and maintenance services · Alabama

STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab

Birmingham, AL · ~264 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Materials handling equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade A.

STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab: 0.5 TCR = 24% of Materials handling equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab safety composite

STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% 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%).

STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab held a steady TCR band

STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.6 in 2019 to 0.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Birmingham, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/56
  • PHOTO Hydro East
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~264 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hydro East (0.0 TCR gap)

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STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab averages 0.5 TCR (24% of the Materials handling equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab TCR series: 2019=0.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 2.1

Where STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab falls in its industry

2,560 Materials handling equipment r establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 56 Materials handling equipment r employers in Alabama.

STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab (264 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab
STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab (264 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

STERIS IMS Birmingham Lab has more employees than the Materials handling equipment repair and 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
2024 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.9 0.5 4 0 0
2022 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.6 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · AL · Birmingham

2,560 Materials handling equipment repair and maintenance services 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 Hydro East 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITT Los Angeles PRO Service Center 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gregory Poole Lift Systems- Roanoke 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Texas District : SVC-Fort Worth TX-USA 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Generation Fossil Gaston Steam Plant 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanil USA 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE GH Metal Solutions, Loc'n 345 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2739 264 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 1101 Enterprise Dr Royersford PA 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 169 - Sacramento Fas 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 487 - Dallas Fas 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR New Industries, LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cole Haan Greenland NH 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pampa Regional Medical Center 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1340 - Norwalk 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1801 - Algonquin 264 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.