State profile · OSHA ITA
Alabama workplace safety
How 7,418 OSHA-reporting employers across Alabama compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 7,418
- Employers
- 4.7
- Avg TCR
- 122,249
- Injuries
- 151
- Fatalities
The state picture
Alabama's 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 · per 100 workers
- 7,418
- employers reporting
- 122,249
- recordable injuries
- 151
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
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.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Alabama is #14 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, 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 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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
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 43 of 149| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KW Plastics Troy | Troy | Plastics resins compounding | D | 5.2 |
| Foodland #450 | Alabaster | Commissaries, primarily groc | D | 5.2 |
| Birmingham Division Patton Chapel Crew Headquarters | Hoover | Electric Power Distribution | F | 5.2 |
| 1808-00000103-456 | Alexander City | Supermarket | D | 5.2 |
| S & F Custom Sign Corp. | Hartselle | Electrical signs manufacturi | D | 5.2 |
| 300 | Jacksonville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.2 |
| Shady Lane | Decatur | Group homes, intellectual an | D | 5.2 |
| Nextran Truck Center, Birmingham | Fultondale | Truck trailer merchant whole | F | 5.2 |
| North Baldwin Infirmary | Bay Minette | ACUTE CARE FACILITY | B | 5.2 |
| Greenbush Logistics-Everwood Preserving | Spanish Fort | Specialized Freight except U | C | 5.2 |
| V2 Composites | Auburn | Fiberglass fabrics weaving | D | 5.2 |
| America's Thrift Store #18 | Decatur | Used Merchandise Store | D | 5.2 |
| Kommerling USA, Inc. | Huntsville | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | D | 5.2 |
| Mobile Division Schillingers Road | Mobile | Electric Power Distribution | F | 5.2 |
| Elkmont GGP Production Crew | Elkmont | Layer-type chicken productio | C | 5.2 |
| Norris Cylinder Company - Huntsville | Huntsville | Fabricated plate work manufa | D | 5.2 |
| 13 | Fort Payne | GROCERY STORE | D | 5.2 |
| 2306 | Northport | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.2 |
| 5126 | Centre | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.2 |
| 377 | Mobile | Automotive Parts and Accesso | D | 5.2 |
| Big Lots Store #5309 Montgomery, AL | Montgomery | Retail Other | D | 5.2 |
| Lincoln Terminal | Lincoln | Trucking, specialized freigh | C | 5.2 |
| Atmore Dirt Cheap | Atmore | Department stores, discount | D | 5.2 |
| Toyota Motor Mfg of Alabama | Huntsville | Vehicle Assembly | D | 5.2 |
| Rouses Market #78 | Daphne | Grocery stores | D | 5.2 |
| Marvin's Atmore | Atmore | Hardware stores | D | 5.2 |
| Wm 7247 | Atmore | - | D | 5.2 |
| 1855-ALBIR3 | Oneonta | General Medical and Surgical | B | 5.2 |
| 2534 | Dothan | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.2 |
| 6435 | Tuscaloosa | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.2 |
| Advanced Disposal - Tallassee | Tallassee | - | D | 5.2 |
| Gadsden Center (Algad) | Attalla | Courier Services Except by A | B | 5.2 |
| Monarch Steel of Alabama, Inc. | Decatur | Flat Rolled Steel | D | 5.2 |
| The Crossings at Riverchase | Hoover | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.2 |
| 1808-00000103-426 | Dothan | Supermarket | D | 5.2 |
| 010420-Athens Po | Athens | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.2 |
| SP Richards | Birmingham | Centralized administrative o | F | 5.2 |
| Hantal Alabama Corporation | Cusseta | Electroplating metals and fo | D | 5.2 |
| Schillingers Road Crew Headquarters - APC | Mobile | Electric Power Distribution | F | 5.2 |
| 2807-1577 | Huntsville | Homecenter | D | 5.2 |
| Tiffin Motorhomes Inc. Winfield | Winfield | Motor homes, self-contained, | D | 5.1 |
| SKYLAND_1381798 | Tuscaloosa | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.1 |
| CALERA_1356618 | Calera | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.1 |
| Birmingham | Homewood | - | F | 5.1 |
| 1808-00000103-448 | Montgomery | Supermarket | D | 5.1 |
| 013840-Haleyville Po | Haleyville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.1 |
| 011070-Brewton Po | Brewton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.1 |
| 015612-Mob-Airport Sta | Mobile | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.1 |
| Es-Providence Mobil | Mobile | - | D | 5.1 |
| A.C. Legg, Inc. | Calera | Spice grinding and blending | D | 5.1 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Alabama's safety record means for you
Alabama averages a TCR of 4.7 - about 1.7× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
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.