Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing · Illinois

Nordco Arcola

Arcola, IL · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nordco Arcola runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Nordco Arcola: 7.5 TCR = 228% of Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nordco Arcola safety composite

Nordco Arcola scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Nordco Arcola: 3.8 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2023

Nordco Arcola's TCR rose 7.6 from 3.8 in 2022 to 11.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336510 · Arcola, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 228% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #19/21
  • PHOTO UKM Transit Products…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UKM Transit Products, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Nordco Arcola in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nordco Arcola averages 7.5 TCR (228% of the Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nordco Arcola TCR series: 2022=3.8 · 2023=11.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Nordco Arcola falls in its industry

208 Brakes and parts for railroad establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #19 safest of 21 Brakes and parts for railroad employers in Illinois.

Nordco Arcola (28 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 Nordco Arcola
Nordco Arcola (28 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Nordco Arcola has fewer employees than the Brakes and parts for railroad rolling st 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
2023 11.3 11.3 3 0 0
2022 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · IL · Arcola

208 Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Arcola, 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 UKM Transit Products, Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Industries-Sharon 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harlingen, TX 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JK-CO LLC. 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Libman Company 651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herff Jones Cap and Gowns Arcola 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herff Jones - Arcola 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcola Health Care 78 FTE
NAT-TCR Ciardelli Fuel Company, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR jennison corporation 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Coventry 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pearson Builders Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Niles, Mi 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Claro's Upland 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Knighto, LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn & Suites Clearwater Beach FL 28 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. 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.