Railroad cars and car equipment manufacturing · Virginia

FreightCar America - Roanoke

Name: FreightCar America - Roanoke Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Roanoke, VA · ~348 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

FreightCar America - Roanoke runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Railroad cars and car equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

FreightCar America - Roanoke: 2.5 TCR = 76% of Railroad cars and car equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FreightCar America - Roanoke safety composite

FreightCar America - Roanoke scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−1.5

2016→2018

FreightCar America - Roanoke injury rate improved

FreightCar America - Roanoke's TCR fell 1.5 from 3.3 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2018=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336510 · Roanoke, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 76% of ind

DART 1.3 DART
RANK #4/7
PHOTO Memphis TN Trackworks
BOOK 2y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~348 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Memphis TN Trackworks (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.6
Sidney NE Car

2.6
This site

2.5
Memphis TN Tra

2.5
Evans Street

2.4

What this shows FreightCar America - Roanoke averages 2.5 TCR (76% of the Railroad cars and car equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

FreightCar America - Roanoke TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where FreightCar America - Roanoke falls in its industry

208 Railroad cars and car equipmen establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Railroad cars and car equipmen employers in Virginia.

FreightCar America - Roanoke (348 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

FreightCar America - Roanoke has more employees than the Railroad cars and car equipment manufact 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	1.8	1.3	4	0	0
2016	3.3	1.9	9	5	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · VA · Roanoke

208 Railroad cars and car equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 415 employers in Roanoke, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Memphis TN Trackworks	MEMPHIS, TN	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Harsco Rail-Ludington	LUDINGTON, MI	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Evans Street	BROOKVILLE, PA	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sidney NE Car Shop	SIDNEY, NE	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WM 1486	FARMVILLE	348 FTE
STATE-SIZE	VAALE - ALEXANDRIA	ALEXANDRIA	348 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Benchmark Utility Services	STERLING	347 FTE
STATE-SIZE	C. J. Coakley Co., Inc.	FAIRFAX	347 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Carilion Clinic Co. 01	Roanoke	7,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Roanoke City Public Schools	Roanoke	1,849 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Other Location	Roanoke	1,808 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Carilion Clinic Services Co. 13	Roanoke	1,753 FTE
NAT-TCR	Store 36814	Youngstown, OH	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	OCY - FR Lead	Fall River, MA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	B.H.W. Sheet Metal Co.	Jonesboro, GU	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Miami Facility	Miami, FL	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Touchstone Wireless Repair and Logistics (FWRC)	Fort Worth, TX	348 FTE
NAT-SIZE	New York Athletic Club - City House	New York, NY	348 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Manheim Pittsburgh	Cranberry Twp, PA	348 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Camblin Steel Service, Inc.	Rocklin, CA	348 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.