Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) · Kansas

Kansas City Railcar Service

Kansas City, KS · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
26.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kansas City Railcar Service runs at 588% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade F.

Kansas City Railcar Service: 26.5 TCR = 588% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kansas City Railcar Service safety composite

Kansas City Railcar Service scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 26.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kansas City Railcar Service: 15.9 → 21.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 41.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2023

Kansas City Railcar Service's TCR rose 5.7 from 15.9 in 2021 to 21.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 41.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Kansas City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 26.5 · 588% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #39/39
  • PHOTO Midwest Railcar Repa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc (1.3 TCR gap)

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Kansas City Railcar Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kansas City Railcar Service averages 26.5 TCR (588% of the Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS benchmark).

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

Kansas City Railcar Service TCR series: 2021=15.9 · 2022=41.9 · 2023=21.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Kansas City Railcar Service falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 39 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Kansas.

Kansas City Railcar Service (42 employees, TCR 26.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Kansas City Railcar Service
Kansas City Railcar Service (42 employees, TCR 26.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Kansas City Railcar Service has fewer employees than the Locomotive and rail car repair (except f median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 21.6 4.8 9 0 0
2022 41.9 8.8 19 0 0
2021 15.9 11.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · KS · Kansas City

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kansas City, KS · 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 Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc 27.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City, MO Rail Shop 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hollidaysburg 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rocky Mountain Transload - Commerce City 13.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sedan Floral Inc 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bartlett Cattle Company, L.P. - Sublette 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rio Vista Farms LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zoltenko Farms 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MKC6 3,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC6 2,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfax Assembly and Stamping 2,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR PROVIDENCE MEDICAL CENTER 1,091 FTE
NAT-TCR Anthem Chico Management 26.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0168 Portland 26.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsor - Resort 26.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chimp Haven 26.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Athens Mold and Machine 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morelli Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE R/J Group, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building Management Partners 42 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.