Copper compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing · Alabama

YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility

Fort Payne, AL · ~17 workers · 5 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

YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Copper compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Copper compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility safety composite

YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility held a steady TCR band

YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Fort Payne, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/12
  • PHOTO Gulbrandsen Technolo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gulbrandsen Technologies - LaPorte Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Copper compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility falls in its industry

418 Copper compounds, not specifie establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

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 12 Copper compounds, not specifie employers in Alabama.

YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility (17 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility
YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility (17 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

YS, Inc. Fort Payne Facility has fewer employees than the Copper compounds, not specified elsewher median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2022 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · AL · Fort Payne

418 Copper compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Gulbrandsen Technologies - LaPorte Facility 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Galata Chemicals, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seaboard Energy of Oklahoma, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prayon Augusta 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DANFORD FARMS 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Covington Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Enterprise Office 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bartletts Ferry Dam 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE 294 - Village Creek WWTP Improvements 17 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 Pokrajac Corporation 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR I E I General Contractors Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 20058 - Colfax 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 10130 Boca Raton 2.8 TCR

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, 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.