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

Economy Coating Systems, Inc.

Camanche, IA · ~71 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Economy Coating Systems, Inc. runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade D.

Economy Coating Systems, Inc.: 7.2 TCR = 160% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Economy Coating Systems, Inc. safety composite

Economy Coating Systems, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Economy Coating Systems, Inc.: 5.3 → 24.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 24.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.73× in 2023

Economy Coating Systems, Inc.'s TCR rose 19.5 from 5.3 in 2019 to 24.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Camanche, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 12.4 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Transco Railcar Repa…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transco Railcar Repair, Inc.- Sioux City, IA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Economy Coating Systems, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Economy Coating Systems, Inc. averages 7.2 TCR (160% 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

Economy Coating Systems, Inc. TCR series: 2019=5.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=24.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Economy Coating Systems, Inc. falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Iowa.

Economy Coating Systems, Inc. (71 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Economy Coating Systems, Inc.
Economy Coating Systems, Inc. (71 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Economy Coating Systems, Inc. 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
2023 24.9 12.4 5 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.8 4.3 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.3 5.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · IA · Camanche

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 8 employers in Camanche, IA · 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 Transco Railcar Repair, Inc.- Sioux City, IA 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARS Nebraska - Hastings NE 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Rail Service, Inc. 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peters Construction Corporation 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE T & K Roofing & Sheet Metal Company Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Mechanical Corp 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clysar, LLC 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Camanche Trucking Terminal 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Camanche 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR EIA - CAMANCHE 46 FTE
NAT-TCR Three Brothers Wineries and Estates, LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Coston & Son, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Tamarac Square 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Aztec Nm 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Four Star Paving LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ciardelli Fuel Company, Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horizon Painting Co., Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silgan Containers Modesto Doherty 71 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.