Industrial locomotives and parts manufacturing · South Carolina

Harsco Rail Columbia

West Columbia, SC · ~460 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harsco Rail Columbia runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial locomotives and parts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Harsco Rail Columbia: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Industrial locomotives and parts manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harsco Rail Columbia safety composite

Harsco Rail Columbia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Harsco Rail Columbia held a steady TCR band

Harsco Rail Columbia's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.5 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.5 · 2023=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336510 · West Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Boaz AL Parts
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~460 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boaz AL Parts (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harsco Rail Columbia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harsco Rail Columbia averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Industrial locomotives and parts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Harsco Rail Columbia TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2023=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Harsco Rail Columbia falls in its industry

208 Industrial locomotives and par establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Industrial locomotives and par employers in South Carolina.

Harsco Rail Columbia (460 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Harsco Rail Columbia
Harsco Rail Columbia (460 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Harsco Rail Columbia has more employees than the Industrial locomotives and parts manufac median and a lower 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
2023 0.6 0.4 3 0 0
2016 0.5 0.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · SC · West Columbia

208 Industrial locomotives and parts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 171 employers in West Columbia, SC · 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 Boaz AL Parts 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln NE Axle Shop 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Tank Car Plant 110 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR A. Stucki Company Corporate Location 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE BoomTown ROI 460 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC264 Darlington (Dixie) 461 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5087 461 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koyo Richland Plant 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Medical Center 4,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-02 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CAE1 2,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CAE1 2,722 FTE
NAT-TCR Walsh Construction Co./OR 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wade Trim Group, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BT Tallahassee 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Zoetis LLC. 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ILC Dover 460 FTE
NAT-SIZE FIS Operations, LLC dba Frontier Integrity Solutions 460 FTE
NAT-SIZE Filtration : Jeffersonville 460 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSI - Delano 460 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: 2023, 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.