Railroad cars and car equipment manufacturing · Arkansas

American Railcar Industries (ARI)

Paragould, AR · ~589 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Railcar Industries (ARI) runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Railroad cars and car equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

American Railcar Industries (ARI): 6.0 TCR = 182% of Railroad cars and car equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Railcar Industries (ARI) safety composite

American Railcar Industries (ARI) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

American Railcar Industries (ARI): 5.1 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2018

American Railcar Industries (ARI)'s TCR rose 3.5 from 5.1 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336510 · Paragould, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Ohio Crankshaft Comp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 102 inj
  • SIZE ~589 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ohio Crankshaft Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Railcar Industries (ARI) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Railcar Industries (ARI) averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Railroad cars and car equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Railcar Industries (ARI) TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where American Railcar Industries (ARI) falls in its industry

208 Railroad cars and car equipmen establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Railroad cars and car equipmen employers in Arkansas.

American Railcar Industries (ARI) (589 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate American Railcar Industries (ARI)
American Railcar Industries (ARI) (589 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

American Railcar Industries (ARI) has more employees than the Railroad cars and car equipment manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2018 8.6 5.5 42 0 0
2017 4.4 3.6 26 0 0
2016 5.1 4.0 34 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · AR · Paragould

208 Railroad cars and car equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 61 employers in Paragould, AR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Ohio Crankshaft Company 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlyle 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Point 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pickering Street 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Transco Lines, Inc 586 FTE
STATE-SIZE AR002 - AR-West Memphis-Operating Center 594 FTE
STATE-SIZE Molex Connectors LLC 580 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welspun 599 FTE
CITY-NEAR DRiV Automotive 1,088 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tenneco 1,082 FTE
CITY-NEAR DRiV 1,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company - Paragould, Arkansas 717 FTE
NAT-TCR Hiawatha (Iahia) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Grain Terminals, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0804 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR US Zinc - Millington 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rai Crew Ind 589 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oh1-Lpz-Oh1 Corporate Office 589 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sumter County SC Government 589 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland, MS 589 FTE

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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.