Blast furnace slag processing · Alabama

TMS Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa, AL · ~102 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TMS Tuscaloosa runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blast furnace slag processing workplace, earning a grade D.

TMS Tuscaloosa: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Blast furnace slag processing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TMS Tuscaloosa safety composite

TMS Tuscaloosa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

TMS Tuscaloosa: 4.7 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2022

TMS Tuscaloosa's TCR rose 3.0 from 4.7 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327992 · Tuscaloosa, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO Dauber Company, Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dauber Company, Inc (0.3 TCR gap)

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TMS Tuscaloosa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TMS Tuscaloosa averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Blast furnace slag processing BLS benchmark).

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

TMS Tuscaloosa TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=1 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where TMS Tuscaloosa falls in its industry

97 Blast furnace slag processing establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
TMS Tuscaloosa (102 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate TMS Tuscaloosa
TMS Tuscaloosa (102 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9

TMS Tuscaloosa has more employees than the Blast furnace slag processing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 7.8 4.3 9 0 0
2021 5.5 3.1 7 0 0
2020 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2019 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2018 3.5 2.6 3 1 0
2017 5.9 5.0 7 0 0
2016 4.7 4.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327992 · AL · Tuscaloosa

97 Blast furnace slag processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 151 employers in Tuscaloosa, 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 Dauber Company, Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Isolatek-Houston 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DicaPerl Minerals 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hemlock Semiconductor Operations, LLC 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE White-Spunner Construction LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.T. Harrison Construction Co., Inc. 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Proshot Concrete, Inc 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE MVP Tuscumbia 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phifer Kauloosa 1,419 FTE
CITY-NEAR BFG3 Tuscaloosa Facility 1,340 FTE
CITY-NEAR McAbee Construction Inc 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tuscaloosa Processing 526 FTE
NAT-TCR North Metro 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0343 - Avon Oh Whse 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0632 - Columbus Oh Whse 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Synergy Company of Utah 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Absolute Concrete Construction 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Commerce, Community & Econmic Development (2) 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Speedway Construction Products Corporation 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta West 102 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.