Aluminum tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum · Alabama

Wolverine Tube, Inc.

Decatur, AL · ~184 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wolverine Tube, Inc. runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Aluminum tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade C.

Wolverine Tube, Inc.: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Aluminum tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wolverine Tube, Inc. safety composite

Wolverine Tube, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Wolverine Tube, Inc.: 2.1 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2021

Wolverine Tube, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.2 from 2.1 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Decatur, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Custom Aluminum Prod…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Custom Aluminum Products Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wolverine Tube, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wolverine Tube, Inc. averages 3.6 TCR (109% of the Aluminum tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Wolverine Tube, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.1 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Wolverine Tube, Inc. falls in its industry

204 Aluminum tube made by drawing establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Aluminum tube made by drawing employers in Alabama.

Wolverine Tube, Inc. (184 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 Wolverine Tube, Inc.
Wolverine Tube, Inc. (184 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Wolverine Tube, Inc. has more employees than the Aluminum tube made by drawing or extrudi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2021 3.3 2.5 8 0 0
2020 4.6 3.2 10 0 0
2019 4.4 2.5 9 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · AL · Decatur

204 Aluminum tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 239 employers in Decatur, 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 Custom Aluminum Products Inc 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Aluminum International LLC - Harlingen, TX 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florence Plant 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gateway Extrusions, Ltd. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dunn Building Company, LLC 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.O. Weaver & Sons, Inc. 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hiller Mobile 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Polyplex USA 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain - Decatur 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur processing plant 885 FTE
CITY-NEAR ULA-Decatur 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Fresh Plant 671 FTE
NAT-TCR 268337-Stp-Eagan Br 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - West Des Moines 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kilihau Facility 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nastra Automotive 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE V&S Midwest Carriers Corp. 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE A12 Idc 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jurupa Hills Post Acute 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Flight Products - Headquarters 184 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.