Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Alabama

Valley Joist East

Fort Payne, AL · ~120 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Joist East runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Valley Joist East: 5.9 TCR = 179% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Joist East safety composite

Valley Joist East scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Valley Joist East: 5.0 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2019

Valley Joist East's TCR rose 2.0 from 5.0 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Fort Payne, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #42/61
  • PHOTO Tri-County Welding &…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tri-County Welding & Fabrication, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Joist East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Joist East averages 5.9 TCR (179% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Joist East TCR series: 2016=5 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Valley Joist East falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 61 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Alabama.

Valley Joist East (120 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Valley Joist East
Valley Joist East (120 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Valley Joist East has more employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2019 7.1 3.5 10 0 0
2018 5.6 2.8 8 0 0
2016 5.0 1.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · AL · Fort Payne

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 39 employers in Fort Payne, 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 Tri-County Welding & Fabrication, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home Base 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 072 LCI 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventower Industries 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southeast Connections LLc ( Moody, Alabama) 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brand Energy Solutions, LLC - Mobile, AL 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linden Lumber, LLC 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE C & L Wood Products 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heil Environmental 869 FTE
CITY-NEAR PlayCore Wisconsin, Inc., dba GameTime 446 FTE
CITY-NEAR PlayCore 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 691 383 FTE
NAT-TCR WIB Joplin 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rose Senior Living - Clinton Twp, MI 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR B.A.B. Grain 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0016 1971 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sante' of North Scottsdale 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Saba Pecan, LP 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blackrock Logistics Fontana 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bagcraft - City of Industry 120 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: 2019, 2018, 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.