Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) · Minnesota
Kimball Railcar Services
Kimball, MN · ~21 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 8.6
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Kimball Railcar Services runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade D.
Kimball Railcar Services: 8.6 TCR = 191% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Kimball Railcar Services safety composite
Kimball Railcar Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).
17/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 8.6 per 100 workers
Safer than 5% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 6.46 per 100 workers
Safer than 7% 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
Kimball Railcar Services: 12.1 → 19.4 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024
Kimball Railcar Services's TCR rose 7.3 from 12.1 in 2017 to 19.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 488210 · Kimball, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 191% of ind
- DART 6.5 DART
- RANK #7/7
- PHOTO Atchison
- BOOK 8y book
- INJ 13 inj
- SIZE ~21 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Atchison (0.0 TCR gap)
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Kimball Railcar Services in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Osawatomie
Osawatomie
8.7 TCR
- This site
Kimball Railcar Services
8.6 TCR
- Atchison
Atchison
8.6 TCR
- Union Tank Car
Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant
8.6 TCR
- Louisiana
Louisiana
8.4 TCR
What this shows Kimball Railcar Services averages 8.6 TCR (191% of the Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS benchmark).
Kimball Railcar Services TCR series: 2017=12.1 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=10.8 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=19.4 · BLS 4.5
Where Kimball Railcar Services falls in its industry
409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishmentsSafer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.
Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Minnesota.
Kimball Railcar Services 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19.4 | 6.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 12.1 | 12.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
488210 · MN · Kimball
409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 9 employers in Kimball, MN · 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 | Atchison | 8.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant | 8.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Osawatomie | 8.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Louisiana | 8.4 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Winthrop Agronomy | 21 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Donahues Greenhouse | 21 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | M7 | 21 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | MNLOG-SEL-SEL MN LOGISTICS' | 21 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | High School | 60 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Elementary | 54 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Kuechle Underground Inc | 45 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | City of Kimball | 41 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | W. A. Wilson & Sons, Inc. | 8.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Owensboro 076 | 8.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | El Toro Water District | 8.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | CHAKM - Hampton Inn Kimball | 8.6 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | D3 Ottawa Yard | 21 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | D6 Litchfield Yard | 21 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | D8 Belleville Yard | 21 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | D1 Kennedy Yard | 21 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.