Rail laying and tamping equipment manufacturing · Virginia

Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake

Chesapeake, VA · ~262 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Rail laying and tamping equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake: 3.2 TCR = 96% of Rail laying and tamping equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake safety composite

Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake held a steady TCR band

Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.3 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.3 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336510 · Chesapeake, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Dixmoor
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~262 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dixmoor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake averages 3.2 TCR (96% of the Rail laying and tamping equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake falls in its industry

208 Rail laying and tamping equipm establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Rail laying and tamping equipm employers in Virginia.

Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake (262 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake
Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake (262 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Plasser American Corporation - Chesapeake has more employees than the Rail laying and tamping equipment manufa 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
2019 3.3 0.8 8 0 0
2018 2.9 1.8 8 0 0
2017 3.3 1.5 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · VA · Chesapeake

208 Rail laying and tamping equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 434 employers in Chesapeake, VA · 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 Dixmoor 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mascot 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Rail Maintenance Services Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Rail Maintenance Services, Inc. Plant 4494 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hourigan 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interbake Foods LLC 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Applications 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mastic Home Exteriors, Inc. 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF2 2,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chesapeake Regional Medical Center 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC Chesapeake, Inc. 1,056 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossways 931 FTE
NAT-TCR Donan Engineering 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Express #502 (Green Bay, WI (Howard)) 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #7 (Lacrosse, WI (South)) 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassionate Care Hospice of Columbia 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Calais Regional Hospital 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE NTA 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Arkansas Rehabilitation Hospital INC 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrison Sportservice, Inc. 262 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.