Painting and wallpapering · California

EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks

Riverside, CA · ~29 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks runs at 310% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade F.

EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks: 8.7 TCR = 310% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks safety composite

EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.8 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

EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks: 3.6 → 20.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 20.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.05× in 2021

EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks's TCR rose 17.1 from 3.6 in 2017 to 20.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Riverside, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 310% of ind

  • DART 17.8 DART
  • RANK #101/124
  • PHOTO Select Painting & De…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Select Painting & Decorating, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks averages 8.7 TCR (310% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=20.8 · BLS 2.8

Where EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #101 safest of 124 Painting and wallpapering employers in California.

EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks (29 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks
EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks (29 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

EMPIE, Inc. dba EmpireWorks has fewer employees than the Painting and wallpapering 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
2021 20.8 17.8 7 0 0
2020 8.1 4.0 2 0 0
2019 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2018 8.3 8.3 3 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · CA · Riverside

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 536 employers in Riverside, 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 Select Painting & Decorating, Inc 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR I.K. Stoltzfus Service Corp. 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advantage Painting Solutions 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PaintTek Quality Painting, Inc. 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sean V. Doherty Farms 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanco Farms, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT SHOP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottonwood Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Riverside 8,676 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-21 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Community Hospital 2,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08681351 RIVERSIDE MED CENTER 2,349 FTE
NAT-TCR MB Consultants LTD 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountain View Co-op Black Eagle Retail 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 184393-Iac-Coralville Br 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Prince Metal Stamping 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parkersburg 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE CWPMO, Inc dba College Works Painting 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Meadows Manor 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redrock Central Elementary 29 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, 2018, 2017. 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.