Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) · Maryland

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD

Elk Mills, MD · ~41 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade F.

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD: 9.7 TCR = 216% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD safety composite

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

TCR Δ

−24.3

2016→2021

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD injury rate improved

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD's TCR fell 24.3 from 27.6 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 27.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=27.6 · 2017=15.5 · 2018=3.0 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=5.0 · 2021=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Elk Mills, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 216% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO Southeastern Rail Se…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southeastern Rail Services of Mulberry, FL, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD averages 9.7 TCR (216% of the Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS benchmark).

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

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD TCR series: 2016=27.6 · 2017=15.5 · 2018=3 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=5 · 2021=3.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD (41 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD
Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD (41 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Elk Mills MD has fewer employees than the Locomotive and rail car repair (except f median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2021 3.4 0.0 2 0 0
2020 5.0 1.7 3 0 0
2019 3.9 1.9 2 0 0
2018 3.0 0.0 0 1 0
2017 15.5 6.2 4 1 0
2016 27.6 6.1 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · MD · Elk Mills

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 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 Southeastern Rail Services of Mulberry, FL, LLC 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WMS Hollidaysburg 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Curry Rail Services - Hollidaysburg 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WTPS Wink 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE MaryMed, LLC - Hurlock 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tecta America East LLC - Baltimore 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE HBSHSEMD65 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE T&B Electric Co., Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilton Philadelphia at Penn's Landing 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Staples Ontario PSO 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR C. Elton Crews, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ECCM 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crafty Beaver Home Center No 1 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Hall 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE RHC Logistics Ohio - Sz15 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington Clinic at Eagle Creek Medical Plaza 41 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.