Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing · Alabama

Summerford Pallet Company

Ashford, AL · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Summerford Pallet Company runs at 249% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Summerford Pallet Company: 8.2 TCR = 249% of Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summerford Pallet Company safety composite

Summerford Pallet Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

Summerford Pallet Company: 9.0 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Summerford Pallet Company's TCR rose 3.2 from 9.0 in 2020 to 12.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Ashford, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 249% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/19
  • PHOTO CHEP Charlotte Servi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHEP Charlotte Service Center (UT13) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summerford Pallet Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summerford Pallet Company averages 8.2 TCR (249% of the Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Summerford Pallet Company TCR series: 2020=9 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=12.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Summerford Pallet Company falls in its industry

952 Pallet parts, wood, manufactur establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 19 Pallet parts, wood, manufactur employers in Alabama.

Summerford Pallet Company (69 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Summerford Pallet Company
Summerford Pallet Company (69 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Summerford Pallet Company has more employees than the Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 12.3 0.0 6 0 0
2021 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2020 9.0 3.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · AL · Ashford

952 Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 4 employers in Ashford, 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 CHEP Charlotte Service Center (UT13) 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millwood, Inc. Austin TX 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kamps Pallets Lima 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pallet Consultants Jacksonville 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CCI CS - Restone Arsenal 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Madison Electric, Inc. 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Fire Protection LLC 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE CRANEWORKS, INC - BHAM 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summerford Truck Line 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summerford Pallet Company - AL 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR 010390-ASHFORD PO 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100505 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CHI Health Saint Elizabeth 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana Spine Hospital - Carmel 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CHEP Charlotte Service Center (UT13) 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Plastics - Baldwyn, MS 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kalamazoo Logistic Center 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Laboratories - Michigan 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Action Technology 69 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, 2021, 2020. 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.