Courier Services Except by Air · Alabama

Tuscaloosa (Altus)

Tuscaloosa, AL · ~119 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tuscaloosa (Altus) runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade D.

Tuscaloosa (Altus): 10.0 TCR = 154% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tuscaloosa (Altus) safety composite

Tuscaloosa (Altus) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 9.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−1.5

2016→2018

Tuscaloosa (Altus) injury rate improved

Tuscaloosa (Altus)'s TCR fell 1.5 from 8.3 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.3 · 2017=15.0 · 2018=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Tuscaloosa, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 10.0 · 154% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #76/100
  • PHOTO MXG
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MXG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tuscaloosa (Altus) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tuscaloosa (Altus) averages 10.0 TCR (154% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Tuscaloosa (Altus) TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=15 · 2018=6.7 · BLS 6.5

Where Tuscaloosa (Altus) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #76 safest of 100 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Alabama.

Tuscaloosa (Altus) (119 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Tuscaloosa (Altus)
Tuscaloosa (Altus) (119 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Tuscaloosa (Altus) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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 6.7 3.8 5 2 0
2017 15.0 11.8 13 1 0
2016 8.3 4.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · AL · Tuscaloosa

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 MXG 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 6322 ATLANTIS DRIVE 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hesler Logistics Inc 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR POUGHKEEPSIE (NYPOU) 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Transmission - Protection and Control Field Services 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE MSE Building Company, Inc. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buffalo Rock Montgomery 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE KW Plastics of Troy 119 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 Poughkeepsie (Nypou) 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR golden memories transportation 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR B-X Brighton LLC 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR PAM Specialty Hospital of Wilkes Barre 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE La Nouba 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transborder Building (Nychp) 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE New York (Nysga) 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrisburg Airport (Pamdt) 119 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, 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.