Railroad rolling stock manufacturing · Virginia

Plasser American

Chesapeake, VA · ~334 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plasser American runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Railroad rolling stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Plasser American: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plasser American safety composite

Plasser American scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Plasser American: 0.1 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2023

Plasser American's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.1 in 2021 to 4.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Greenbrier
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~334 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenbrier (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plasser American in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plasser American averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plasser American TCR series: 2021=0.1 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Plasser American falls in its industry

208 Railroad rolling stock manufac establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #6 safest of 7 Railroad rolling stock manufac employers in Virginia.

Plasser American (334 employees, TCR 2.7) 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
Plasser American (334 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Plasser American has more employees than the Railroad rolling stock manufacturing 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 4.2 1.9 12 1 0
2022 3.9 3.9 12 0 0
2021 0.1 0.0 14 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · VA · Chesapeake

208 Railroad rolling stock 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 Greenbrier 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Rail Maintenance Services 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GE Transportation Systems Motor Coils 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wabtec Las Vegas Remanufacturing 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE QubicaAMF Worldwide LLC 334 FTE
STATE-SIZE VA0045BC 334 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reston Office (Non-GBU) 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kollmorgen 501 W. Main St. 333 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 55431 Fort Bend County 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Adrian Jules Ltd 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 01-01-02/01-05-02 West Div - Golden Gate Region 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockwall Tx Plant 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE J.F. Sobieski Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE Halkey Roberts 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE Auburn, AL 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #28 334 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, 2021. 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.