Freight car cleaning services · South Dakota

Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc

Brandon, SD · ~168 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
27.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc runs at 616% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Freight car cleaning services workplace, earning a grade F.

Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc: 27.7 TCR = 616% of Freight car cleaning services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc safety composite

Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 27.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

TCR Δ

−17.7

2023→2024

Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc injury rate improved

Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc's TCR fell 17.7 from 36.5 in 2023 to 18.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 36.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=36.5 · 2024=18.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Brandon, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 27.7 · 616% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK P0
  • PHOTO KANSAS CITY RAILCAR …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KANSAS CITY RAILCAR SERVICE (1.3 TCR gap)

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Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc averages 27.7 TCR (616% of the Freight car cleaning services BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc TCR series: 2023=36.5 · 2024=18.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc falls in its industry

409 Freight car cleaning services establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc (168 employees, TCR 27.7) 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 Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc
Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc (168 employees, TCR 27.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Midwest Railcar Repair, Inc has more employees than the Freight car cleaning services 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 18.9 9.8 27 0 0
2023 36.5 11.6 42 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · SD · Brandon

409 Freight car cleaning services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 18 employers in Brandon, SD · 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 KANSAS CITY RAILCAR SERVICE 26.5 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 Tessier's Inc 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holiday Inn City Centre 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Tube- Airport Drive location 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilson Trailer Comapany Plant 7 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marmen Energy Company 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marmen Energy Brandon 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartan - Brandon 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartan Motors - Brandon 214 FTE
NAT-TCR On Top Delivery LLC 27.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 666 Tul1000 27.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Autumn Care of Drexel 27.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Region : Meu 27.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ene Systems, Inc. 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE VWGoA NARDC/PDC 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Four Points by Sheraton Los Angeles International Airport 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakewood Camping Resort 168 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. 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.