Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · Alabama

WKW North America, LLC

Pell City, AL · ~323 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WKW North America, LLC runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade C.

WKW North America, LLC: 2.8 TCR = 86% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WKW North America, LLC safety composite

WKW North America, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

WKW North America, LLC: 2.4 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2023

WKW North America, LLC's TCR rose 1.4 from 2.4 in 2020 to 3.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Pell City, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 86% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO FET Engineering Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~323 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FET Engineering Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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WKW North America, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WKW North America, LLC averages 2.8 TCR (86% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

WKW North America, LLC TCR series: 2020=2.4 · 2021=3 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where WKW North America, LLC falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Electroplating metals and form employers in Alabama.

WKW North America, LLC (323 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate WKW North America, LLC
WKW North America, LLC (323 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

WKW North America, LLC has more employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2023 3.8 1.8 13 0 0
2022 2.2 1.6 7 0 0
2021 3.0 1.3 11 0 0
2020 2.4 1.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · AL · Pell City

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 44 employers in Pell City, 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 FET Engineering Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orbel Corporation 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR De Nora Tech Chardon 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIE Coatings, LLC Albuquerque 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6728-00030023-28 323 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guin 323 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plasman 323 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coral Industries 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eissmann Group Automotive 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR WKW Erbsloeh North America, LLC 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Col Robert L Howard 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5113 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Truck Refrigeration Repair, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1361 Yorktown, VA 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BG Products Wichita Manufacturing Facility 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Interiors Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Odyssey House Inc 323 FTE
NAT-SIZE VA026 323 FTE
NAT-SIZE King County District Court 323 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golub Corporation 323 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.