Freight car cleaning services · Texas

Borders - Laredo

Laredo, TX · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Borders - Laredo runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Freight car cleaning services workplace, earning a grade B.

Borders - Laredo: 2.4 TCR = 54% of Freight car cleaning services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Borders - Laredo safety composite

Borders - Laredo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.3

2019→2021

Borders - Laredo injury rate improved

Borders - Laredo's TCR fell 7.3 from 7.3 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Laredo, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #49/82
  • PHOTO Midwest Locomotive
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Locomotive (0.0 TCR gap)

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Borders - Laredo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Borders - Laredo averages 2.4 TCR (54% of the Freight car cleaning services BLS benchmark).

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

Borders - Laredo TCR series: 2019=7.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Borders - Laredo falls in its industry

409 Freight car cleaning services establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #49 safest of 82 Freight car cleaning services employers in Texas.

Borders - Laredo (23 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Borders - Laredo
Borders - Laredo (23 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Borders - Laredo has fewer employees than the Freight car cleaning services median and a lower 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.3 7.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · TX · Laredo

409 Freight car cleaning services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 245 employers in Laredo, 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 Midwest Locomotive 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Railcar Services - DuBois, Pennsylvania, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wylie 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IRECO, LLC 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Houston South Mill Distribution, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smallhold, Buda 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMARILLO SOD FARM 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE VISITORS MANAGEMENT 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Laredo 3,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Laredo 1,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-21080000-21080 748 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-62 672 FTE
NAT-TCR Eagle Transport Corporation - Richmond 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Thomas J. Kempton Jr., Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mills 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Refrigerated Madison (Terminal), LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Timberwolf Investments, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Callidus Technologies LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tom Tanenbaum, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mediacom Knoxville, IA. 23 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.