Aircraft manufacturing · Alabama

Tuscaloosa

Cottondale, AL · ~64 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tuscaloosa runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Tuscaloosa: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tuscaloosa safety composite

Tuscaloosa scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2017→2023

Tuscaloosa injury rate improved

Tuscaloosa's TCR fell 2.2 from 2.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · Cottondale, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO General Atomics - Po…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Atomics - Poway - A20 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tuscaloosa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tuscaloosa averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Aircraft manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tuscaloosa TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=1 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Tuscaloosa falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 10 Aircraft manufacturing employers in Alabama.

Tuscaloosa (64 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa (64 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Tuscaloosa has fewer employees than the Aircraft manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.0 0.0 0 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · AL · Cottondale

390 Aircraft manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 11 employers in Cottondale, 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 General Atomics - Poway - A20 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell - Amarillo 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Trumbull (5227) 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Huachuca 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Warrior Electric Membership Corporation 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wiregrass Electric Cooperative 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Warrior EMC 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAC Cottondale 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inteva Products Cottondale Operations 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Tuscaloosa 2 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR 016 TA Tuscaloosa 91 FTE
NAT-TCR Wenatchee HQ-Main (Location) 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Electric Power Research Institute 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Priority Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hubbell Industrial Controls 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sandler 2018 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minoa Elementary School 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exhale Battery Wharf 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago Faucets Milwaukee 64 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.