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Progress Rail (Caterpillar)

Products: n/a. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 16.1/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 98th percentile of 128 rail supplier companies.

Analyst brief

Progress Rail's record in the rail-supplier category consists of a single 2020 entry: a contractor fatality caused by a machine part at the company's McCook, Illinois plant. The event carries the maximum severity rating of 5, classified as a fatality, distinguishing it from every other entity in this set by outcome severity despite being a single occurrence. The index of 16.3 and 97.6 percentile, with a band of elevated, place Progress Rail at the top of the rail-supplier category and above the low band occupied by its peers here. The record is a single workplace fatality, not part of a broader documented pattern in the data provided.

Entries by year and severity

012020 S5: 1120
S1S2S3S4S5

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Yearly entries vs category average

fatality over time vs category

Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S503/2020 fatality McCook, IL, USAContractor killed by machine part at Progress Rail's McCook, IL plant · 1 fatality Patch

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