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

Rescar - Loc#540

Name: Rescar - Loc#540 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Kingsport, TN · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.6
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Rescar - Loc#540 runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade C.

Rescar - Loc#540: 4.6 TCR = 102% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rescar - Loc#540 safety composite

Rescar - Loc#540 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Rescar - Loc#540: 4.5 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2018

Rescar - Loc#540's TCR rose 4.6 from 4.5 in 2016 to 9.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Kingsport, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 102% of ind

DART 9.2 DART
RANK #3/5
PHOTO Texas
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Texas (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Tennessee employers → · Look up another →

St Paul AAW

4.7
This site

4.6
Barstow

4.6
Texas

4.5
KCNS

4.5

What this shows Rescar - Loc#540 averages 4.6 TCR (102% of the Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS benchmark).

Rescar - Loc#540 TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=9.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Rescar - Loc#540 falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Tennessee.

Rescar - Loc#540 (21 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Rescar - Loc#540 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
2018	9.2	9.2	2
2017	0.0	0.0	0
2016	4.5	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · TN · Kingsport

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Texas	LENEXA, KS	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	KCNS	KANSAS CITY, MO	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Barstow	BARSTOW, CA	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	St Paul AAW	ST PAUL, MN	4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	SOUTH TEXAS FARM	KINGSVILLE	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Greenpoint Ag- Gin & Warehouse	COVINGTON	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Johnson Pest Control, Inc.	SEVIERVILLE	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Obion County Growout	UNION CITY	21 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastman Kingsport Site	Kingsport	7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Holston Valley Medical Center	Kingsport	1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL	Kingsport	1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA	Kingsport	1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR	SCC of Booker T Washington Rehabilitation Center	Shreveport, LA	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	South Place SNF D/B/A South Place	Athens, TX	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Interstate Commercial Glass and Door	Northwood, OH	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kardoes Rubber, a HEXPOL Co	Lafayette, AL	4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	The Safety Zone-Indiana	Richmond, IN	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Saint-Gobain Northampton	Northampton, MA	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Moline Customer Office	Moline, IL	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Paramount Roll Forming Inc	Santa Fe Springs, CA	21 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.