Circular (i.e., weft) fabrics knitting · Alabama

Straehle + Hess USA, Inc.

Auburn, AL · ~76 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Circular (i.e., weft) fabrics knitting workplace, earning a grade A.

Straehle + Hess USA, Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Circular (i.e., weft) fabrics knitting BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. safety composite

Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Straehle + Hess USA, Inc.: 1.3 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2022

Straehle + Hess USA, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.4 from 1.3 in 2019 to 2.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313240 · Auburn, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK P76
  • PHOTO SHAI-TEX
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SHAI-TEX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Circular (i.e., weft) fabrics knitting BLS benchmark).

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

Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. TCR series: 2019=1.3 · 2020=0.1 · 2022=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. falls in its industry

41 Circular (i.e., weft) fabrics establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. (76 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Straehle + Hess USA, Inc.
Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. (76 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. has more employees than the Circular (i.e., weft) fabrics knitting median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2022 2.8 1.4 1 1 0
2020 0.1 0.0 3 0 0
2019 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313240 · AL · Auburn

41 Circular (i.e., weft) fabrics knitting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 113 employers in Auburn, 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 SHAI-TEX 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yarringtion Mills 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milliken Hatch 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 401 Lincoln Ave 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Birmingham Division 6th Street Office 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sand Mountain Electric Cooperative 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Location 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roofcare Service Center, LLC 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Briggs & Stratton 602 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4021-000017263 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR 000017263 AUBURN UNIVERSITY DINING 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 356 344 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Nsu Chic-Fil-a 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Va Aquarium 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Simmers Buffalo 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dow Louisville. (SMRU0847) 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Univ Sc-Upstate 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Modine Manufacturing Company - Grenada LAL 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1216 Fountain Valley 76 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: 2022, 2020, 2019. 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.