Railroad rolling stock manufacturing · Alabama

FreightCar Alabama, LLC

Cherokee, AL · ~531 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FreightCar Alabama, LLC runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Railroad rolling stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

FreightCar Alabama, LLC: 3.6 TCR = 108% of Railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FreightCar Alabama, LLC safety composite

FreightCar Alabama, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

FreightCar Alabama, LLC: 0.2 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

FreightCar Alabama, LLC's TCR rose 6.7 from 0.2 in 2019 to 6.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336510 · Cherokee, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Kinkisharyo LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~531 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kinkisharyo LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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FreightCar Alabama, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FreightCar Alabama, LLC averages 3.6 TCR (108% of the Railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

FreightCar Alabama, LLC TCR series: 2019=0.2 · 2020=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where FreightCar Alabama, LLC falls in its industry

208 Railroad rolling stock manufac establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #9 safest of 14 Railroad rolling stock manufac employers in Alabama.

FreightCar Alabama, LLC (531 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 FreightCar Alabama, LLC
FreightCar Alabama, LLC (531 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

FreightCar Alabama, LLC has more employees than the Railroad rolling stock manufacturing median and a higher 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
2020 6.9 0.0 15 0 0
2019 0.2 0.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · AL · Cherokee

208 Railroad rolling stock manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 8 employers in Cherokee, 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 Kinkisharyo LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyder Equipment Co 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Motive Power, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decoursey KY Car Shop 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Johns Soules Foods Valley 531 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neptune Technology Group 530 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aerojet Rocketdyne - Huntsville HQ 532 FTE
STATE-SIZE Region 052 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR FreightCar America 842 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essity Professional Hygiene Barton 498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essity Professional Hygiene 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Navistar-Cherokee 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Bronx TS-132nd St 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nationwide Boiler, Inc. - Fremont 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1294 - West Jacksonville Fl Whse 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Herr Foods Inc. 71 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE E&I Engineering USA Corp 531 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Canobie Lake Park-Fast Food 531 FTE
NAT-SIZE Savannah River Remediation, LLC - Construction 531 FTE
NAT-SIZE White Construction LLC. 531 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: 2020, 2019. 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.