Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) · Texas

American Engineering Services

Houston, TX · ~95 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Engineering Services runs at 266% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade F.

American Engineering Services: 12.0 TCR = 266% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Engineering Services safety composite

American Engineering Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

American Engineering Services held a steady TCR band

American Engineering Services's TCR held near 0.2 from 14.3 in 2021 to 14.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=14.3 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=14.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 266% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #82/82
  • PHOTO WMS Omaha-West
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WMS Omaha-West (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Engineering Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Engineering Services averages 12.0 TCR (266% of the Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS benchmark).

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

American Engineering Services TCR series: 2021=14.3 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=14.5 · BLS 4.5

Where American Engineering Services falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 82 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Texas.

American Engineering Services (95 employees, TCR 12.0) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Engineering Services
American Engineering Services (95 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

American Engineering Services has more employees than the Locomotive and rail car repair (except f 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
2024 14.5 11.2 13 0 0
2023 8.7 8.7 8 0 0
2022 10.3 8.0 9 0 0
2021 14.3 10.7 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · TX · Houston

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 WMS Omaha-West 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rail Modal Group - Fremont 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Curry Rail Services - Hockley 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DOREMUS 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - North District Houston 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacesetter Homes, LLC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockin R Construction 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillsboro Concrete Buildings 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR 1462 - Las Vegas Centennial Hills 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 9407 - Target.com Woodbury MN TFC 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alaris Health at Belgrove 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0052 - Lake Street 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sanger CA Truss 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logos Public Charter School 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Virginia Region - Solomon Apartment Management 95 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.