Steel foundries (except investment) · Illinois

Amsted Rail Company Inc

Granite City, IL · ~797 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Amsted Rail Company Inc runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel foundries (except investment) workplace, earning a grade D.

Amsted Rail Company Inc: 4.4 TCR = 134% of Steel foundries (except investment) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Amsted Rail Company Inc safety composite

Amsted Rail Company Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2016→2023

Amsted Rail Company Inc injury rate improved

Amsted Rail Company Inc's TCR fell 0.6 from 4.4 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.4 · 2018=5.0 · 2023=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331513 · Granite City, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO McConway & Torley, L…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 100 inj
  • SIZE ~797 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McConway & Torley, LLC (Arcosa, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Amsted Rail Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Amsted Rail Company Inc averages 4.4 TCR (134% of the Steel foundries (except investment) BLS benchmark).

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

Amsted Rail Company Inc TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2018=5 · 2023=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Amsted Rail Company Inc falls in its industry

94 Steel foundries (except invest establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Steel foundries (except invest employers in Illinois.

Amsted Rail Company Inc (797 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 7.3 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Amsted Rail Company Inc
Amsted Rail Company Inc (797 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 7.3

Amsted Rail Company Inc has more employees than the Steel foundries (except investment) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.3. 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
2023 3.8 3.0 18 0 0
2018 5.0 2.0 47 0 1
2016 4.4 2.0 35 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331513 · IL · Granite City

94 Steel foundries (except investment) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 80 employers in Granite City, IL · 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 McConway & Torley, LLC (Arcosa, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR McConway & Torley Plant 1801 Pittsburgh, PA 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stainless Foundry and Engineering inc 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTHERN CAST PRODUCTS 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adventist LaGrange Memorial Hospital 797 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Express - Streamwood 798 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building 798 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transmissions Building KK 796 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite City Works 976 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite City Plant 563 FTE
CITY-NEAR icon Mechanical LLC 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR KraftHeinz Granite City 351 FTE
NAT-TCR Saputo Cheese Mayville 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Truck of Twin Falls 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trucchi's Supermarket #5 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fm 6 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Taylors International Services, Inc 797 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stl-Ground Ops 797 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inter-Community Hospital 797 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson Health 797 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: 2023, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.