Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) · Illinois

Quality Rail Service, Inc.

Madison, IL · ~50 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quality Rail Service, Inc. runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade D.

Quality Rail Service, Inc.: 7.4 TCR = 164% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quality Rail Service, Inc. safety composite

Quality Rail Service, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−1.0

2018→2024

Quality Rail Service, Inc. injury rate improved

Quality Rail Service, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.0 from 7.0 in 2018 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.0 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=11.9 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Madison, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #33/36
  • PHOTO Parsec Cincinnati
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Parsec Cincinnati (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quality Rail Service, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quality Rail Service, Inc. averages 7.4 TCR (164% of the Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS benchmark).

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

Quality Rail Service, Inc. TCR series: 2018=7 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=11.9 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.5

Where Quality Rail Service, Inc. falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 36 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Illinois.

Quality Rail Service, Inc. (50 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Quality Rail Service, Inc.
Quality Rail Service, Inc. (50 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Quality Rail Service, Inc. has fewer employees than the Locomotive and rail car repair (except f 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 6.0 2.0 3 0 0
2023 11.9 6.8 7 0 0
2022 8.5 6.8 5 0 0
2021 4.8 4.8 5 0 0
2020 6.2 6.2 5 0 0
2018 7.0 7.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · IL · Madison

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 19 employers in Madison, 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 Parsec Cincinnati 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet Terminal Savannah 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transco Railcar Repair, Inc.- Sioux City, IA 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Champaign CMI1 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1240-Monmouth, IL 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constellation Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Storage 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maverick Transportation, LLC - Madison, IL 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAGNESIUM ELEKTRON NORTH AMERICA INC 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR 223 - Madison West 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interco Trading Company 82 FTE
NAT-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 028/McMurry University 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Crestview Health & Rehab 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Silfies Masonry LLC 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Burbank - Burbank Water and Power - Elec. Equipment 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harvest Bakery Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courion 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE FC5-FOAM-GREENFIELD 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE AWS INDUSTRIES INC dba TOMAK PRECISION 50 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.