Steel joists manufacturing · Alabama

Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor

Fort Payne, AL · ~332 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel joists manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Steel joists manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor safety composite

Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor held a steady TCR band

Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.5 in 2023 to 0.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.5 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Fort Payne, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #1/61
  • PHOTO CMC Rebar Melissa
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~332 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CMC Rebar Melissa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Steel joists manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor TCR series: 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor falls in its industry

1,491 Steel joists manufacturing establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #1 safest of 61 Steel joists manufacturing employers in Alabama.

Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor (332 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor
Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor (332 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Vulcraft Alabama Division of Nucor has more employees than the Steel joists manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · AL · Fort Payne

1,491 Steel joists 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 CMC Rebar Melissa 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heavy Fabrication 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwest Steel Arizona Shop 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sabre Towers and Poles/Sabre Communications 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1229 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE 764 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fair Haven Retirement 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sylacauga 52 333 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 USA Springfield 5515 Backlick Rd 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR USA East Elmhurst 88 08 23rd Ave 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TPC Wire & Cable Corp 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dart Controls, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kilgore Flares Co. LLC 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scaled Composites 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Foods Allentown 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kendrick Plastics 332 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. 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.