Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek

Town Creek, AL · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek: 2.8 TCR = 125% of Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek safety composite

Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−5.5

2017→2018

Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek injury rate improved

Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek's TCR fell 5.5 from 5.5 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.5 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Town Creek, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 125% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/21
  • PHOTO SA Recycling Tucson
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SA Recycling Tucson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek averages 2.8 TCR (125% of the Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek TCR series: 2017=5.5 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek falls in its industry

1,126 Scrap materials (e.g., automot establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 21 Scrap materials (e.g., automot employers in Alabama.

Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek (50 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek
Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek (50 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Thornton Iron & Metal, Inc. - Town Creek has more employees than the Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, indus median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 5.5 2.8 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · AL · Town Creek

1,126 Scrap materials (e.g., automotive, industrial) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama 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 SA Recycling Tucson 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fortune Metal Inc of Rhode Island 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OmniSource LLC - MD Transportation 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fortune Plastic and Metal Texas LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 8600 Live Haul Koch Foods 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patton Chapel Crew Headquarters 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Building LLC 50 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of Tipton LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0765 - Roseburg, or 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SG002 - Sage Ft. Collins 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Montvale 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Camdenton Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of California Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06- Knoxville, TN 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriGas - Ft. Lauderdale, FL 50 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. 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.