Employer · Illinois

Decatur Railcar Repair

Decatur, IL · ~78 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Decatur Railcar Repair runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Decatur Railcar Repair: 1.6 TCR = 35% of industry BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Decatur Railcar Repair safety composite

Decatur Railcar Repair scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.0

2016→2024

Decatur Railcar Repair injury rate improved

Decatur Railcar Repair's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.0 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488999 · Decatur, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Ohio Street - Chicago
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ohio Street - Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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Decatur Railcar Repair in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Decatur Railcar Repair averages 1.6 TCR (35% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Decatur Railcar Repair TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Decatur Railcar Repair falls in its industry

37 industry establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

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 6 industry employers in Illinois.

Decatur Railcar Repair (78 employees, TCR 1.6) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Decatur Railcar Repair
Decatur Railcar Repair (78 employees, TCR 1.6) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Decatur Railcar Repair has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.4 2.3 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.0 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488999 · IL · Decatur

37 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 219 employers in Decatur, 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 Ohio Street - Chicago 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Historic Tours of America, Inc. - Corporate Key West 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro Shore Services - Ft. Lauderdale 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Integrated Mission Support Services (Kennedy Space Center) 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bedford Grow LLC 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukegan Station 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago West Tech 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corn Belt Energy Corporation 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Facility 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Memorial Hospital 1,982 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Public School District No. 61 1,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Staff Offices 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR ARC Specialties, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BNA1 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ada World Headquarters 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR General Public Administration 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deerfield Soybean 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valdosta Extraction 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradshaw 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marshall Logistics LLC 78 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, 2021, 2018, 2017, 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.