Railroad switching services · Illinois
The Prairie Line, Inc.
Ofallon, IL · ~94 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 0.0
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
The Prairie Line, Inc. runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Railroad switching services workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 0.0
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 4.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 0
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares The Prairie Line, Inc.'s OSHA Total Case Rate of 0.0 to the Railroad switching services BLS benchmark of 4.5 (0% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
The Prairie Line, Inc.'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 4.5 industry benchmark.
Where The Prairie Line, Inc. falls in its industry
489 Railroad switching services establishmentsSafer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.
Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 40 Railroad switching services employers in Illinois.
Trend analysis for The Prairie Line, Inc.
Between 2023 and 2024, The Prairie Line, Inc.'s Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 0.0 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 0.0, a spread of 0.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 2 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, The Prairie Line, Inc. recorded 0 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 0 injuries shown on this page for The Prairie Line, Inc. are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 488210 - Railroad switching services.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 202,907 hours worked = 0.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The Prairie Line, Inc. (this establishment) | 0.00 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) industry avg | 4.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 488210 |
| Illinois state avg (all industries) | 4.73 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by The Prairie Line, Inc. to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on The Prairie Line, Inc.'s reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Railroad switching services peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 0% of the Railroad switching services benchmark, The Prairie Line, Inc. reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Railroad switching services sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.