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

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA

Lynchburg, VA · ~70 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade C.

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA: 4.0 TCR = 90% 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 - Lynchburg VA safety composite

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA held a steady TCR band

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.4 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.4 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Lynchburg, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P31
  • PHOTO Transco Railcar Repa…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transco Railcar Repair, Inc. - Miles City, MT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA averages 4.0 TCR (90% 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 - Lynchburg VA TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA (70 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 - Lynchburg VA
Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA (70 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA has more 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 4.7 0.0 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.6 0.0 2 1 0
2018 2.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 8.9 1.5 5 1 0
2016 4.4 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · VA · Lynchburg

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 360 employers in Lynchburg, VA · 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 Transco Railcar Repair, Inc. - Miles City, MT 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Intermodal, Inc., Council Bluffs, IA 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR UTC Railcar Repair Services - Sayre, PA 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Illinois 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Leaf Medical of Virginia LLC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.L. Mooney Advanced Water Reclamation Facility 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monarc Construction, Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynchburg General Hospital 2,596 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT NOG Lynchburg 2,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. - Lynchburg 2,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centra Urgent Care Forest 1,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Day School For Autism 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR US Michigan Holland 10985 Chicago Dr 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rush Health Systems 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Shore Chevrolet LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lind Exco, Inc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Nursing Home, Inc. 70 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.