Railroad rolling stock manufacturing · Alabama

FreightCar America

Cherokee, AL · ~842 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

FreightCar America runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Railroad rolling stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

FreightCar America: 4.1 TCR = 123% of Railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FreightCar America safety composite

FreightCar America scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 44% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−3.0

2017→2018

FreightCar America injury rate improved

FreightCar America's TCR fell 3.0 from 5.6 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.6 · 2018=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 123% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Matteson-Hadady Corp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~842 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Matteson-Hadady Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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FreightCar America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FreightCar America averages 4.1 TCR (123% 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 America TCR series: 2017=5.6 · 2018=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where FreightCar America falls in its industry

208 Railroad rolling stock manufac establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #10 safest of 14 Railroad rolling stock manufac employers in Alabama.

FreightCar America (842 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 America
FreightCar America (842 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

FreightCar America 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
2018 2.5 1.1 19 0 1
2017 5.6 2.9 42 4 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 Matteson-Hadady Corporation 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wabtec Global Services-SRC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kawasaki Rail Car Inc - New Haven 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silvis 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 6095 843 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7019 844 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evonik Corp- Theodore, AL 838 FTE
STATE-SIZE COLSA Corporation - Corporate 838 FTE
CITY-NEAR FreightCar Alabama, LLC 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essity Professional Hygiene Barton 498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essity Professional Hygiene 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Navistar-Cherokee 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. - Springfield 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Care Infusion Pharmacy 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR B-XII Waltham LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Redi-Mix, LLC Frisco 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - BDL 842 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kforce Inc. 842 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2964-H0001 842 FTE
NAT-SIZE NWTL 842 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: 2018, 2017. 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.