Abstract: In general, the safety checklist evaluation method is used to evaluate the personal safety for railway shunting operation, but this method is insufficient. This article put forward a evaluation model of principal component analysis based on this evaluation method. Taking a certain marshalling station as an example, this article made a comprehensive evaluation of personal safety for shunting operation in five units of its shunting system by means of SPSS20.0. Practical application results showed that the application of the model was helpful for traffic safety departments to analyze the personal safety for shunting operation and take improvement measures for main problems.