Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing · North Carolina

Railroad Friction Products Corp.

Maxton, NC · ~188 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Railroad Friction Products Corp. runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Railroad Friction Products Corp.: 1.5 TCR = 47% of Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Railroad Friction Products Corp. safety composite

Railroad Friction Products Corp. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Railroad Friction Products Corp.: 0.5 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2024

Railroad Friction Products Corp.'s TCR rose 2.0 from 0.5 in 2019 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336510 · Maxton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 47% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Trinity Tank Car Pla…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trinity Tank Car Plant 19 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Railroad Friction Products Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Railroad Friction Products Corp. averages 1.5 TCR (47% 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

Railroad Friction Products Corp. TCR series: 2019=0.5 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=1 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Railroad Friction Products Corp. falls in its industry

208 Brakes and parts for railroad establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Brakes and parts for railroad employers in North Carolina.

Railroad Friction Products Corp. (188 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Railroad Friction Products Corp.
Railroad Friction Products Corp. (188 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Railroad Friction Products Corp. has more employees than the Brakes and parts for railroad rolling st median and a lower 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
2024 2.6 2.1 6 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2022 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2021 4.1 3.4 6 0 0
2020 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2019 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · NC · Maxton

208 Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 17 employers in Maxton, NC · 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 Trinity Tank Car Plant 19 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleveland OH Trackworks 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henderson NV Locomotive 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alstom 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garner Complex 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merritt Management Corp - Merritt Construction Services - NC 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE GA Solar Services 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Funston Company 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Soup Supply Company, INC 1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maxton 1,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC 395 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silgan Containers Maxton 252 FTE
NAT-TCR AGLC Rome Service Center 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Auburndale Operations Center 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Star of the West Milling Co - Willard, OH 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allegheny Contract Flooring Inc. 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silva Farms LLC 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid Mountain Contractors, Inc. 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commerce 188 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.