TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.7 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Alabama workplace safety
How 7,418 OSHA-reporting employers across Alabama compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 6,438 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 7,418
- Employers
- 4.7
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 122,249
- Injuries (all)
- 151
- Fatalities (all)
Alabama vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
7,418 25th of 54 higher than 29 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Alabama's 6,438 rated reporting employers average 4.7 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.7 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.7
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 6,438
- rated employers
- 7,418
- all reporting employers
- 122,249
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 7,418 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 18% B · 14% C · 29% D · 20% F · 18%
18% of Alabama's reporting establishments earn an F and 18% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Alabama ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRAlabama's average TCR of 4.7 is lower than 75% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Alabama is #14 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 6,438-employer subset), it's #51 of 54, a 37-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Alabama Workplaces Compare
Alabama hosts 7,418 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Alabama cohort, workers have logged 122,249 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 6,438 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 151 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Alabama, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Alabama, by injury rate
Page 128 of 149| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilgrims Pride - Pet Food | Russellville | Rendering animals (carrion) | A | 0.3 |
| Ineos Styrolution - Decatur, AL Site | Decatur | Polystyrene resins manufactu | A | 0.3 |
| Imaging Business Machines | Birmingham | Optical readers and scanners | A | 0.3 |
| Evonik Corporation | Birmingham | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 0.3 |
| Ascend Decatur Site | Decatur | Adiponitrile manufacturing | A | 0.3 |
| Cae USA Dtc | Dothan | Aviation schools | A | 0.3 |
| Par Liquids | Huntsville | Adrenal medicinal preparatio | A | 0.3 |
| Saraland | Saraland | Carpets and rugs made from t | A | 0.3 |
| BSE Industrial Contractors, Inc. | Birmingham | Crane rental with operator | A | 0.3 |
| Reed Maintenance Services, Inc. | Union Grove | Waste hauling, local, nonhaz | A | 0.3 |
| ARD MBUSI Plant 2 | Vance | Warehousing Logistics | A | 0.3 |
| BRHMALOC | Birmingham | Wired Telecommunications Car | A | 0.3 |
| Rusken Packaging Heflin | Heflin | Boxes, corrugated and solid | A | 0.2 |
| HHO | Huntsville | Engineering research and dev | A | 0.2 |
| Troy | Troy | automotive body paint and in | A | 0.2 |
| U.S. Amines (Bucks) LLC | Axis | Carbon organic compounds, no | A | 0.2 |
| Berry Global Films - Montgomery, AL | Montgomery | Bags, plastics film, single | A | 0.2 |
| Dot Go | Dothan | General freight trucking, lo | A | 0.2 |
| Electrical Repair Service Co. | Birmingham | Electric motor repair and ma | A | 0.2 |
| Southwire Heflin | Heflin | Aluminum Copper drawing and | A | 0.2 |
| Nouryon (LeMoyne Site) | Axix | Acyclic hydrocarbons (e.g., | A | 0.2 |
| Mayer Electric Supply Company, Inc. - Corporate | Birmingham | Distribution equipment, elec | A | 0.2 |
| Huntsville Facility | Huntsville | Microcomputers manufacturing | A | 0.2 |
| Lewis Pest Control | Thomasville | Pest control (except agricul | A | 0.2 |
| MDL Contracting, Inc. | Mobile | Industrial building (except | A | 0.2 |
| Myer Marine Services | Mobile | Machine shops | A | 0.2 |
| Evonik Corp- Theodore, AL | Theodore | Organo-inorganic compound ma | A | 0.2 |
| MS - Huntsville, AL - 1HUAL | Huntsville | Facilities (except computer | A | 0.2 |
| Raytheon_Huntsville_AL_Bob Heath Drive | Huntsville | - | A | 0.2 |
| BM6 | Selma | Mechanical contractors | A | 0.2 |
| BrandSafway Solutions, LLC - Mobile Branch | Mobile | Specialty Trade Contractor | A | 0.2 |
| International Paper - Huntsville AL | Huntsville | Boxes, corrugated and solid | A | 0.2 |
| Trident Technologies, LLC - Huntsville, AL | Huntsville | Acoustical engineering consu | A | 0.2 |
| 4016-18235000 | Dothan | Wholesale Trade | A | 0.2 |
| Tva 2 | Stevenson | Demolition contractor | A | 0.2 |
| AL 7027 Old Madison Pike NW | Huntsville | - | A | 0.2 |
| F. L. Crane & Sons Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | Drywall contractors | A | 0.2 |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation US AL Huntsville Bradford 4800 (1350) | Huntsville | - | A | 0.2 |
| 9001 - AL - Corporate | Birmingham | Medical care management serv | A | 0.2 |
| American Remediation & Environmental, Inc | Chunchula | Environmental remediation se | A | 0.2 |
| Aerojet Rocketdyne - Huntsville HQ | Huntsville | Aerospace | A | 0.2 |
| Norton Lilly International | Mobile | Agents and brokers, nondurab | A | 0.2 |
| US009: Birmingham 205 - SG | Irondale | Fire sprinkler system instal | A | 0.2 |
| AL13 | Birmingham | Airborne radio communication | A | 0.2 |
| Wiltew, Inc | Semmes | Fabricated pipe and pipe fit | A | 0.2 |
| Caddell Construction Co., (DE) LLC | Montgomery | Commercial building construc | A | 0.2 |
| M.a.D.H. Gin, Inc. | Selma | Cotton ginning | A | 0.2 |
| Russell Brands, LLC Alexander City Distribution Complex | Alexander City | Warehousing and storage, gen | A | 0.2 |
| FMC - Mobile Site | Axis | Pesticide Chemical Manufactu | A | 0.2 |
| Orion Ampitheater | Huntsville | Stage set (e.g., concert, mo | A | 0.2 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Alabama: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.7 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (7,418 here).
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.