Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel · Alabama

WS Decatur

Decatur, AL · ~31 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WS Decatur runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel workplace, earning a grade C.

WS Decatur: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WS Decatur safety composite

WS Decatur scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

WS Decatur: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2020

WS Decatur's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331221 · Decatur, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO WS Columbus
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WS Columbus (0.0 TCR gap)

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WS Decatur in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WS Decatur averages 3.4 TCR (103% of the Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel BLS benchmark).

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

WS Decatur TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=4 · BLS 3.3

Where WS Decatur falls in its industry

206 Steel Product Manufacturing fr establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

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 6 Steel Product Manufacturing fr employers in Alabama.

WS Decatur (31 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate WS Decatur
WS Decatur (31 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9

WS Decatur has fewer employees than the Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchas median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2020 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2019 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2018 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331221 · AL · Decatur

206 Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel 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 WS Columbus 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stonycreek Facility 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Park 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Steel Strip Corp. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elkmont GGP Production Crew 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scotch Land Management , LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mobile Division Eight Mile Crew Headquarters 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murray Building Company, Inc 31 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 Summit at Brighton/Wolk Manor 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastside Gardens 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bariatric Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer - Adrian 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1842 Lkq 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE MA.NORTH.11 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland Electric Company, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center - Highland Park Center 31 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, 2018, 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.