Paints, emulsion (i.e., latex paint), manufacturing · California

Ellis Paint Company

Los Angeles, CA · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ellis Paint Company runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paints, emulsion (i.e., latex paint), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ellis Paint Company: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Paints, emulsion (i.e., latex paint), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ellis Paint Company safety composite

Ellis Paint Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Ellis Paint Company: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

Ellis Paint Company's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Los Angeles, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #18/29
  • PHOTO Rust-Oleum - Attleboro
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rust-Oleum - Attleboro (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ellis Paint Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ellis Paint Company averages 3.0 TCR (91% of the Paints, emulsion (i.e., latex paint), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ellis Paint Company TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ellis Paint Company falls in its industry

530 Paints, emulsion (i.e., latex establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 29 Paints, emulsion (i.e., latex employers in California.

Ellis Paint Company (27 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ellis Paint Company
Ellis Paint Company (27 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Ellis Paint Company has fewer employees than the Paints, emulsion (i.e., latex paint), ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2018 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · CA · Los Angeles

530 Paints, emulsion (i.e., latex paint), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, CA · 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 Rust-Oleum - Attleboro 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Standard Paints - Prestain 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US NC Sanford Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NIC Industries, Inc. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Vineyards 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAND RANCH 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Bernabe Vineyards 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR MCI - Airport United Airlines Offices 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR JL Audio, Inc - Florida 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Concrete Materials, Inc. Bogota Plant 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nuclear Energy : GLE 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #3431 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #3393 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #3280 27 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.