Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing · Georgia

Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele

Cordele, GA · ~112 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele runs at 417% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele: 13.8 TCR = 417% of Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele safety composite

Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−6.3

2019→2022

Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele injury rate improved

Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele's TCR fell 6.3 from 12.3 in 2019 to 5.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 27.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.3 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=27.1 · 2022=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Cordele, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 417% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Dock Foundry LLC dba…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dock Foundry LLC dba Three Rivers Gray Iron (0.1 TCR gap)

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Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele averages 13.8 TCR (417% of the Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele TCR series: 2019=12.3 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=27.1 · 2022=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele falls in its industry

272 Cast iron brake shoes, railroa establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Cast iron brake shoes, railroa employers in Georgia.

Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele (112 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele
Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele (112 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele has more employees than the Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2022 5.9 5.9 6 0 0
2021 27.1 11.1 22 0 0
2020 9.8 8.0 11 0 0
2019 12.3 7.8 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · GA · Cordele

272 Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 49 employers in Cordele, GA · 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 Dock Foundry LLC dba Three Rivers Gray Iron 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7L Lawrenceville 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR D&L Foundry Inc 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHEMCO-Steel Castings Inc. (Midland Plant) 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery (Quitman) 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flournoy Construction Group 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paving/ Excavation 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berkel Piling Atlanta 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crisp Regional Hospital 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1006 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marvair 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1006 290 FTE
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02502 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 479501-MEM-BARTLETT 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 566872-Rac-West Racine Sta 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Florida Suites 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE DyStar LP Corp 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enterprist Holdings - CLT Airport 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terraces of Lake Worth 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE SuperMax Isla Verde 112 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.