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Progress Rail (Caterpillar)

Products: n/a. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 26.9/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 4 of 12 among Rail suppliers companies with incidents (141 tracked).

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. Progress Rail (Caterpillar)'s index of 26.9 ranks 4 of 12 companies in Rail suppliers with incident history. The record is a single workplace fatality, not part of a broader documented pattern in the data provided.

Risk index

26.9/100RobotRisk index
16.9/100Median index across the 12 Rail suppliers companies with incident history (141 tracked, 129 with none)
4 of 12Rank in Rail suppliers (of 12 with incident history)
ElevatedRisk band

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident typeUnique incidentsShare
fatality1100%

Unique incident list

1 unique incident on file for this company.

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S5~Mar 2020 fatality McCook, IL, USAContractor killed by machine part at Progress Rail's McCook, IL plant · 1 fatality Patch
S5 ~Mar 2020 · fatality · Contractor killed by machine part at Progress Rail's McCook, IL plant
McCook, IL, USA1 supporting source rowmedium confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S5~Mar 2020Contractor killed by machine part at Progress Rail's McCook, IL plantPatch

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