Freight car cleaning services · Georgia

Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant

Valdosta, GA · ~138 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Freight car cleaning services workplace, earning a grade D.

Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant: 8.6 TCR = 190% of Freight car cleaning services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant safety composite

Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−4.6

2022→2023

Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant injury rate improved

Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant's TCR fell 4.6 from 10.8 in 2022 to 6.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.8 · 2023=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Valdosta, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 190% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #16/16
  • PHOTO Atchison
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atchison (0.0 TCR gap)

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Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant averages 8.6 TCR (190% of the Freight car cleaning services BLS benchmark).

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

Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant TCR series: 2022=10.8 · 2023=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant falls in its industry

409 Freight car cleaning services establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 16 Freight car cleaning services employers in Georgia.

Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant (138 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant
Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant (138 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Union Tank Car Co. - Valdosta Plant has more employees than the Freight car cleaning services 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
2023 6.3 0.7 9 0 0
2022 10.8 5.4 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · GA · Valdosta

409 Freight car cleaning services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 167 employers in Valdosta, GA · 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 Atchison 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimball Railcar Services 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisiana 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Osawatomie 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Birdsong Peanuts Blakely 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE FortuneJohnson LLC 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerry-Rome 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraton Chemical, LLC 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Georgia Medical Center 2,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0962 922 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Electric Inc. - All Establishments 886 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Electric Inc. 809 FTE
NAT-TCR Roesch Acquisitons LLC 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR KG Farms, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Granite City Electric Supply Co Taunton Location 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sapphire Nursing at Meadow hill 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Camden County Partnership for Children 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moyie Springs 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE SRI Fire Sprinkler LLC 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE BP Lubricants USA Inc. 138 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. 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.