Railroad construction · Kentucky

United Rail Service, LLC

Burnside, KY · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

United Rail Service, LLC runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Railroad construction workplace, earning a grade D.

United Rail Service, LLC: 4.1 TCR = 145% of Railroad construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Rail Service, LLC safety composite

United Rail Service, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

United Rail Service, LLC: 0.0 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

United Rail Service, LLC's TCR rose 8.1 from 0.0 in 2022 to 8.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Burnside, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 145% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #11/13
  • PHOTO Railroad Constructor…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Railroad Constructors, INc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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United Rail Service, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows United Rail Service, LLC averages 4.1 TCR (145% of the Railroad construction BLS benchmark).

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

United Rail Service, LLC TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=8.1 · BLS 2.8

Where United Rail Service, LLC falls in its industry

932 Railroad construction establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 13 Railroad construction employers in Kentucky.

United Rail Service, LLC (31 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate United Rail Service, LLC
United Rail Service, LLC (31 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

United Rail Service, LLC has fewer employees than the Railroad construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 8.1 8.1 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · KY · Burnside

932 Railroad construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 7 employers in Burnside, KY · 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 Railroad Constructors, INc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Environmental Quality Resources, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gale Construction Company 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sea & Shore Contracting, Inc. 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hwy 64 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Sandy 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Carlisle 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geothermal Earthworks Inc 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrick Hardwoods, Inc 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kingsford Mfg 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burnside 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Generating Station 60 FTE
NAT-TCR WestCoast Brace & Limb 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalwall Corporation-Flat Sheet Division 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Display Pack 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Paper Corporation 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amcon Construction - MAIN 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imagine Architectural Concrete 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Institutional Equipment Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Sales of Hutchinson, Inc. 31 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.

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

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