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 99 of 149| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colonial Printing | Huntsville | Printing, digital (e.g., bil | B | 1.9 |
| Neptune Technology Group | Tallassee | Totalizing fluid meters manu | B | 1.9 |
| 2726 - I56/I20 Bridge | Birmingham | Bridge construction | B | 1.9 |
| Connector Manufacturing - Greenville | Greenville | Lugs and connectors, electri | B | 1.9 |
| Kedplasma - Moffett | Mobile | Blood donor stations | A | 1.9 |
| HALMB01 | Mobile | Search, detection, navigatio | B | 1.9 |
| SA Recycling, Mobile Hardwood Ln | Mobile | Metal scrap and waste mercha | C | 1.9 |
| Anniston AL FXFE-ANB | Ohatchee | Less Than Truckload General | A | 1.9 |
| Hanceville Distribution Center | Hanceville | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.9 |
| 1258 1258-Montgomery, Al-10690 John Knight Close | Montgomery | Office Equipment Merchant Wh | C | 1.9 |
| ALBIR | Birmingham | Warm Air Heating and Air-Con | C | 1.9 |
| M&D Home oiffice | Decatur | Plumbing and heating contrac | B | 1.9 |
| 8192 | Dothan | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | B | 1.9 |
| TMS Calvert | Calvert | Blast furnace slag processin | B | 1.9 |
| Tyler Union | Anniston | Cast iron pipe and pipe fitt | B | 1.9 |
| Synaflex Rubber Products Co. | Talladega | Extruded, molded or lathe-cu | B | 1.9 |
| Manning Construction LLC | Cullman | Excavating, earthmoving, or | B | 1.9 |
| CRB | Birmingham | Textile Manufacturing | B | 1.9 |
| Primetals Technologies-Decatur | Decatur | Rolling mill machinery and e | B | 1.8 |
| Composite Technologies International Plant | Anniston | Epoxy resins manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| QSI Phenix City | Phenix City | Building cleaning services, | A | 1.8 |
| H2 Decatur | Decatur | - | B | 1.8 |
| GSWP-Corp Maintenance | Abbeville | Wood Preservation | B | 1.8 |
| Clayton Supply Haleyville II | Haleyville | Doors, wood and covered wood | B | 1.8 |
| Landers McLarty Dodge Chrysler Jeep Fiat (Huntsville AL) | Huntsville | New Car Dealers | B | 1.8 |
| Southern Division Complex | Montgomery | Electric Power Distribution | D | 1.8 |
| Mobile Airport Dirt Cheap | Mobile | Department stores, discount | B | 1.8 |
| Mobile, AL-Biolife 730 | Mobile | Plasmapheresis Center | A | 1.8 |
| TAMKO - Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | Asphalt shingles made from p | B | 1.8 |
| Sodexo at Troy Univ-Troy-Trojan Dining | Troy | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Mcclellan Assisted Living Facility, Lp | Anniston | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| Field | Bessemer | Painting (except roof) contr | B | 1.8 |
| Performance Architectural Inc. | Birmingham | Architectural metalwork manu | B | 1.8 |
| Barry | Bucks | Cement merchant wholesalers | C | 1.8 |
| Briggs Equipment Mobile | Mobile | Lift trucks, industrial, mer | C | 1.8 |
| Wm 1620 | Brewton | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | B | 1.8 |
| Wm 5100 | Birmingham | - | B | 1.8 |
| Southeast Unloading - Bessemer | Bessemer | Warehouse freight handling | A | 1.8 |
| Surgical Association of Mobile, P. A. | Mobile | Medical doctors' (MDs, excep | A | 1.8 |
| Marbury Steel Fabricators, Inc. | Marbury | Structural steel, fabricated | B | 1.8 |
| Gold Bond Building Products - Anniston | Oxford | Paper mills (except newsprin | B | 1.8 |
| Payton Equipment Group | Jemison | Commercial and industrial ma | C | 1.8 |
| Industrial Pump & Machine | Mobile | Commercial and industrial ma | C | 1.8 |
| 182 Dis-Hsv Huntsville at the Space & Rocket | Huntsville | Hotel | B | 1.8 |
| Piggly Wiggly #637 | Greenville | Food (i.e., groceries) store | B | 1.8 |
| Alabama Orthopaedic Clinic, P.C. | Mobile | Orthopedic surgeons' offices | A | 1.8 |
| Action Resources - Hanceville | Hanceville | Bulk liquids trucking, long- | A | 1.8 |
| South AL Division | Ariton | Road construction | B | 1.8 |
| East Alabama Lumber | Lafayette | Applicators, wood, manufactu | B | 1.8 |
| Navigator International | Huntsville | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 1.8 |
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.