Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · Alabama

Steward Machine Company - Plant 1

Name: Steward Machine Company - Plant 1 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Birmingham, AL · ~99 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Steward Machine Company - Plant 1 runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Steward Machine Company - Plant 1: 2.1 TCR = 64% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Steward Machine Company - Plant 1 safety composite

Steward Machine Company - Plant 1 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Steward Machine Company - Plant 1: 1.4 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2020

Steward Machine Company - Plant 1's TCR rose 2.3 from 1.4 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Birmingham, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 64% of ind

DART 1.8 DART
RANK #15/61
PHOTO Thorp Equipment Inc
BOOK 4y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thorp Equipment Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Steward Machine Company - Plant 1 averages 2.1 TCR (64% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Steward Machine Company - Plant 1 TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2018=2 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Steward Machine Company - Plant 1 falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 61 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in Alabama.

Steward Machine Company - Plant 1 (99 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Steward Machine Company - Plant 1 has more employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2020	3.7	1.8	4
2019	1.4	1.4	1
2018	2.0	0.0	2
2016	1.4	1.4	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · AL · Birmingham

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Thorp Equipment Inc	THORP, WI	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	W&W\|AFCO Steel Colfax	COLFAX, NC	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Padgett Inc.	NEW ALBANY, IN	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CMC Rebar Nashville South	NASHVILLE, TN	2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sessions Company Inc.	ENTERPRISE, AL	99 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Western Division Tuscaloosa Snow Mills Complex	TUSCALOOSA	99 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gulf Equipment Corp	THEODORE	99 FTE
STATE-SIZE	H. C. Blake Co. Inc.	HUNTSVILLE	99 FTE
CITY-NEAR	USD	Birmingham	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CLASSIC FOODS	Birmingham	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate	Birmingham	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BIRMINGHAM PACKERS	Birmingham	8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR	West St Paul ISD #197-Henry Sibley High School	West St Paul, MN	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Puratos Rancho Cucmonga	Rancho Cucamonga, CA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Feed Mill	Pittsburg, TX	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	voestalpine Nortrak Inc-Decatur	Decatur, IL	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	St. Vincent's Home	Quincy, IL	99 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Victory Hospice	Tishomingo, OK	99 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Victory Home Health	Tishomingo, OK	99 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Center for Microbiological Excellence (C.M.E.) Building	Lansing, MI	99 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.