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

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN

Kingsport, TN · ~24 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade D.

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN: 6.8 TCR = 152% 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 - Kingsport TN safety composite

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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)
F 6.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−10.9

2016→2021

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN injury rate improved

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN's TCR fell 10.9 from 10.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.9 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Kingsport, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 152% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO TTX- POLB
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TTX- POLB (0.0 TCR gap)

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Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN averages 6.8 TCR (152% 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 - Kingsport TN TCR series: 2016=10.9 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Tennessee.

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN (24 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN
Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN (24 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Kingsport TN 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.5 0.0 2 0 0
2019 5.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 8.9 0.0 3 0 0
2017 9.2 4.6 2 0 0
2016 10.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · TN · Kingsport

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, TN · 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 TTX- POLB 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ROSE LAKE 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parsec Hobart 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GATX Plantersville 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE RIVERSIDE FUQUA FARMS LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Warren-Viola Utility District 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOB 268BG Rutherford County 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Kingsport Site 7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holston Valley Medical Center 1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA 1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR Production & Warehouse 6 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Algus Packaging, Inc. - East Taylor 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Emplotment :68 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR West Michigan Compounding - Moore 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE AN3 Logisitcs LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niagara Gear Corporation 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE FourPoints by Sheraton 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Ahorro Supermarket #9, LLC 24 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.