Fabricated bar joists manufacturing · Alabama

Vulcraft of Alabama Inc.

Fort Payne, AL · ~315 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fabricated bar joists manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Vulcraft of Alabama Inc.: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Fabricated bar joists manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. safety composite

Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Vulcraft of Alabama Inc.: 0.9 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Vulcraft of Alabama Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 0.9 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/61
  • PHOTO JIT Manufacturing
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~315 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JIT Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Fabricated bar joists manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated bar joists manufact establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #8 safest of 61 Fabricated bar joists manufact employers in Alabama.

Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. (315 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 of Alabama Inc.
Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. (315 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. has more employees than the Fabricated bar 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
2017 1.7 0.0 5 0 0
2016 0.9 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · AL · Fort Payne

1,491 Fabricated bar 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 JIT Manufacturing 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EDGE MGT dba Rademacher Industrial 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Rebar Etiwanda 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beltline 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4407 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARD LOGISTICS, LLC - PLANT2 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE MS Companies Lincoln Alabama 315 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 Vanderveer's Gas Service - Biscoe - Robbins, NC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CoorsTek - Worcester Ma. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Road 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix Mining 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Envigo 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Remote Sorting Faciltiy 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Grand Desert, Las Vegas 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cambria Care Center 315 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: 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.