Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing · Alabama

Andress Engineering Associates, Inc

Alabaster, AL · ~45 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Andress Engineering Associates, Inc runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Andress Engineering Associates, Inc: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Andress Engineering Associates, Inc safety composite

Andress Engineering Associates, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Andress Engineering Associates, Inc held a steady TCR band

Andress Engineering Associates, Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336510 · Alabaster, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/14
  • PHOTO Alstom ACAS
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alstom ACAS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Andress Engineering Associates, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Andress Engineering Associates, Inc averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Andress Engineering Associates, Inc TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Andress Engineering Associates, Inc falls in its industry

208 Brakes and parts for railroad establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 14 Brakes and parts for railroad employers in Alabama.

Andress Engineering Associates, Inc (45 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Andress Engineering Associates, Inc
Andress Engineering Associates, Inc (45 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Andress Engineering Associates, Inc has fewer employees than the Brakes and parts for railroad rolling st median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · AL · Alabaster

208 Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 57 employers in Alabaster, AL · 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 Alstom ACAS 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patterson GA Locomotive 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Tank Car Plant 110 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln NE Axle Shop 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corbitt Power & Light LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gadsden Complex - APC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gadsden Complex 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottage Builders Inc, dba as CBI Construction Services 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR 724 SHELBY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER 828 FTE
CITY-NEAR Region 052 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 423 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR 423 310 FTE
NAT-TCR Jackson Demolition Service, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kinetic Systems Inc. Mid-Alantic office - Shop MD 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clay's Performance Construction LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Robert Henry Corporation 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fennell Spring Co, LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Sierra Express - Oakland 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE JSA Company 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ft. Pierce 45 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.