Railroad signaling equipment manufacturing · South Carolina

Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC

Batesburg, SC · ~181 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Railroad signaling equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Railroad signaling equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC safety composite

Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−4.7

2020→2024

Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC injury rate improved

Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC's TCR fell 4.7 from 7.3 in 2020 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.3 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334290 · Batesburg, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO Statewide Traffic Si…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Statewide Traffic Signal Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Railroad signaling equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC TCR series: 2020=7.3 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC falls in its industry

103 Railroad signaling equipment m establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC (181 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 127 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 05001,0001,5002,000 012345 Average employees Total Case Rate Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC
Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC (181 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 127 employees and a TCR of 0.8

Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC has more employees than the Railroad signaling equipment manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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
2024 2.6 1.6 5 0 0
2023 1.6 0.6 2 1 0
2022 1.6 0.5 3 0 0
2021 3.1 1.6 6 0 0
2020 7.3 5.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334290 · SC · Batesburg

103 Railroad signaling equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 8 employers in Batesburg, 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 Statewide Traffic Signal Company 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAAC International Rockledge 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WANCO, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Econolite Group, Inc. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Owens Corning - Aiken 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyocera AVX Components Corporation 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPS Packaging 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE 425 Columbia 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amick Farms, LLC Processing Plant 2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amick Farms, LLC SC Processing Plant 1,860 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Propane, Fuels, and Ice, Inc. 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR IG Design Group Americas, Inc. - Leesville, SC 84 FTE
NAT-TCR Beaver Steel Services, Inc 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Physicians Network 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Opelousas General Hospital Authority 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1694 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10213 Middletown 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10204 Thousand Oaks 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10146 Pikes Peak 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10353 Glen Mills 181 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.