Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished · Alabama

Vance Metal Products, Inc.

Bessemer, AL · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vance Metal Products, Inc. runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade A.

Vance Metal Products, Inc.: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vance Metal Products, Inc. safety composite

Vance Metal Products, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−4.1

2016→2020

Vance Metal Products, Inc. injury rate improved

Vance Metal Products, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.1 from 4.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Bessemer, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Tempel Steel Company
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tempel Steel Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Vance Metal Products, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vance Metal Products, Inc. averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Vance Metal Products, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Vance Metal Products, Inc. falls in its industry

241 Steel forgings made from purch establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

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 4 Steel forgings made from purch employers in Alabama.

Vance Metal Products, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vance Metal Products, Inc.
Vance Metal Products, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Vance Metal Products, Inc. has fewer employees than the Steel forgings made from purchased steel median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · AL · Bessemer

241 Steel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 116 employers in Bessemer, 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 Tempel Steel Company 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Forge and Steel - Pittsburgh 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Worthington Specialty Processing Taylor 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ellwood Crankshaft Group Sharon Forge 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Young's Plant Farm, Inc. (Farm 1) 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherokee Gin & Cotton Company 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snead Growout 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Energy Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BHM1 4,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bessemer, DC 768 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blox LLC 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR US PIPE - BHM-DIP 559 FTE
NAT-TCR ITW-FEG Hobart 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Extrusion 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Town & Country Supermarket #2430 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Smiths Tubular Systems-Laconia, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Range Cornice & Roofing Co Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Meats, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Western Plus 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bestway Firestone 24 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: 2020, 2019, 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.