Light rail cars and equipment manufacturing · Illinois

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC

Rochelle, IL · ~252 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Light rail cars and equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC: 5.4 TCR = 162% of Light rail cars and equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC safety composite

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC: 3.4 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC's TCR rose 4.0 from 3.4 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336510 · Rochelle, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 162% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/21
  • PHOTO Dayton-Phoenix Group…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~252 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dayton-Phoenix Group Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC averages 5.4 TCR (162% of the Light rail cars and equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC falls in its industry

208 Light rail cars and equipment establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 21 Light rail cars and equipment employers in Illinois.

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC (252 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC
Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC (252 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC has more employees than the Light rail cars and equipment manufactur median and a higher 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
2017 7.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 3.4 2.8 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · IL · Rochelle

208 Light rail cars and equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 45 employers in Rochelle, IL · 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 Dayton-Phoenix Group Inc 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premtec 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City Service Center 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayton-Phoenix Group - Dayton 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE SG360 Wheeling 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE AHF Products 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gates 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dometic Litchfield 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochelle Foods 823 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochelle Community Hospital 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochelle Distribution Center 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 933 238 FTE
NAT-TCR Chambersburg (Pacha) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Arizona Renaissance Festival 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 5 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SCC of Alpine Rehabilitation Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE WFs- Denver 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lorain Tubular 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt Whitney Operations (Gatla) 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orchids Paper Products Pryor Converting 252 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.