Distribution of natural gas · Alabama

Tuscaloosa Operations Center

Tuscaloosa, AL · ~42 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tuscaloosa Operations Center runs at 413% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Distribution of natural gas workplace, earning a grade F.

Tuscaloosa Operations Center: 5.0 TCR = 413% of Distribution of natural gas BLS 1.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tuscaloosa Operations Center safety composite

Tuscaloosa Operations Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Tuscaloosa Operations Center: 4.9 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2024

Tuscaloosa Operations Center's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.9 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221210 · Tuscaloosa, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 413% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #8/13
  • PHOTO South Shop
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Shop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tuscaloosa Operations Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tuscaloosa Operations Center averages 5.0 TCR (413% of the Distribution of natural gas BLS benchmark).

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

Tuscaloosa Operations Center TCR series: 2016=4.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=10 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=12.4 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 1.2

Where Tuscaloosa Operations Center falls in its industry

1,153 Distribution of natural gas establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 13 Distribution of natural gas employers in Alabama.

Tuscaloosa Operations Center (42 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Tuscaloosa Operations Center
Tuscaloosa Operations Center (42 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Tuscaloosa Operations Center has fewer employees than the Distribution of natural gas median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2024 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2023 12.4 5.0 5 0 0
2022 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.5 0.0 2 0 0
2020 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2019 10.0 2.5 4 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.9 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221210 · AL · Tuscaloosa

1,153 Distribution of natural gas 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 South Shop 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascade Natural Gas Mount Vernon-District Office-Operations-Field 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CenterPoint Energy - Lafayette 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALISO VIEJO BASE - 15 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Troy Hatchery 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Division Auburn Crew Headquarters 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE LEE BUILDERS, INC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Corporation 42 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 Clinton Manor Living Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Muscle Foods USA - Henderson, Nv 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 2 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 254-03 Men on the Move Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sice Inc Houston Office 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-512 South Gevers Street 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE KC 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scheerer Bearing Corporation 42 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.