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
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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 71 of 149| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spire Gulf Inc. | Mobile | Distribution of natural gas | F | 3.3 |
| SpillTech | Mobile | Resins, plastics (except cus | C | 3.3 |
| Talladega Casting and Machine Co. Inc. | Talladega | Machine shops | C | 3.3 |
| Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. | Athens | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.3 |
| 315 | Oneonta | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.3 |
| Southern Haulers LLC Hartselle Terminal | Hartselle | General freight trucking, lo | B | 3.3 |
| United Cerebral Palsy of West Alabama | Northport | Direct Care | C | 3.3 |
| Southeast Connections LLc ( Moody, Alabama) | Moody | Distribution line, gas and o | C | 3.3 |
| Guntersville feed mill | Guntersville | - | C | 3.3 |
| Coastal Forest Products - Plywood Operations | Chapman | Panels, softwood plywood, ma | C | 3.3 |
| Energy Homes | Addison | Manufactured (mobile) homes | C | 3.3 |
| Saint Gobain Huntsville | Huntsville | Abrasive products manufactur | C | 3.3 |
| Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co. | Montgomery | Stopcock drains, plumbing, m | C | 3.3 |
| 2807-1115 | Guntersville | Homecenter | C | 3.3 |
| Store 1083 | Tuscaloosa | Supermarkets and other groce | C | 3.3 |
| Price Less Foods #12 | Oneonta | Grocery stores | C | 3.3 |
| Eastaboga Warehouse | Eastaboga | General freight trucking, lo | B | 3.3 |
| 4256-1474 | Birmingham | Passenger car rental | F | 3.3 |
| Enterprise Rent-A-Car Remarketing- Huntsville | Madison | Automobile rental | F | 3.3 |
| Select Specialty Hospitals, Inc. d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - Birmingham) | Birmingham | Hospitals, specialty (except | C | 3.3 |
| Magnolia Vegetable Processing | Brundidge | Pickling fruits and vegetabl | C | 3.3 |
| Allied AEC | Birmingham | Gasoline made in petroleum r | C | 3.3 |
| Plant 65 | Andalusia | Polyester fibers and filamen | C | 3.3 |
| Hope Hull | Hope Hull | Foam polystyrene products ma | C | 3.3 |
| FabArc Steel Supply Co., Inc. | Oxford | Structural steel, fabricated | C | 3.3 |
| Bolta US | Northport | Exhaust systems and parts, a | B | 3.3 |
| 1786 Lowe S of Ft. Payne Al | Fort Payne | Homecenter | C | 3.3 |
| Store 1206 | Gardendale | Supermarkets and other groce | C | 3.3 |
| 1808-00000103-528 | Northport | Supermarket | C | 3.3 |
| TMX2015 | Hoover | EXTERMINATING AND PEST CONTR | B | 3.3 |
| Jackson Hospital - EVS | Montgomery | - | B | 3.3 |
| Huntsville Health and Rehab Center LLC | Huntsville | Homes for the aged with nurs | B | 3.3 |
| Koch Foods Gadsden Plant | Gadsden | Chickens, processing, fresh, | C | 3.3 |
| Prince Minerals LLC- Leesburg | Leesburg | Frit manufacturing | C | 3.3 |
| Borusan Berg Pipe | Mobile | Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, l | C | 3.3 |
| Choice Fabricators | Rainbow City | Closures, metal, stamping | C | 3.3 |
| North American Lighting - Muscle Shoals | Muscle Shoals | - | B | 3.3 |
| Huntsville Sales Office | Madison | Sales Office | C | 3.3 |
| Store 1377 | Dothan | Supermarkets and other groce | C | 3.3 |
| Piggly Wiggly #554 | Guntersville | Food (i.e., groceries) store | C | 3.3 |
| 1158 | Adamsville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.3 |
| Hubbell Power Systems, Inc | Leeds | Nonferrous die-casting found | C | 3.2 |
| 2501 Gateway Tire Birmingham, Inc. | Moody | 423130 Tire and Tube Merchan | D | 3.2 |
| 2807-3006 | Hartselle | Homecenter | C | 3.2 |
| Store 0281 Spanish Fort | Spanish Fort | Department stores (except di | C | 3.2 |
| Evergreen Forest Products, Inc. (Prattville Terminal) | Montgomery | Dry bulk trucking (except ga | B | 3.2 |
| Bradford Health Services - Madison | Madison | Alcoholism rehabilitation ho | C | 3.2 |
| Steris Ips | Birmingham | Materials handling equipment | D | 3.2 |
| Headquarters | Prattville | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.2 |
| Goodyear Gadsden Alabama | Gadsden | Tires (e.g., pneumatic, semi | C | 3.2 |
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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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.